Anagrams of imponderables
Word imponderables has
3933 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of imponderables.
- imponderable
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noun,
an imponderable thing, force, agency, etc.
- Apresoline
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- bandoleers
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noun,
a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.
- Parmenides
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noun,
flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- impersonal
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adjective,
not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person:
- ponderable
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adjective,
capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- inoperable
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adjective,
not operable or practicable.
- personable
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adjective,
of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- Bordelaise
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noun,
a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- neorealism
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noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) any of various movements in literature, art, etc., that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.
- banderoles
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noun,
a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bromeliad
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noun,
any of numerous, usually epiphytic tropical American plants, having long, stiff leaves and showy flowers, and including the pineapple, Spanish moss, and many species grown as houseplants or ornamentals.
- mandibles
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noun,
the bone of the lower jaw.
- endoplasm
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noun,
the inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell.
Compare ectoplasm (def 1).
- disenamor
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verb (used with object),
to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with):
- disenable
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verb (used with object),
to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- sea-robin
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noun,
any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- bilanders
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noun,
a small two-masted merchant vessel, a type of hoy distinguished by the trapezoidal shape of the mainsail, used especially on canals and along coasts of the Low Countries.
- rebeldoms
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noun,
a region or territory controlled by rebels.
- miserable
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adjective,
wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable:
- name-drop
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verb (used without object),
to indulge in name-dropping.
- emboldens
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verb (used with object),
to make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage.
- beam-ends
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Idioms,
on her beam-ends, Nautical. heeled so far on one side that the deck is practically vertical:
- dobermans
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noun,
Doberman pinscher.
- preambles
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noun,
an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude.
Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- amberoids
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noun,
synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of various resins at a high temperature.
- pomanders
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noun,
a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- dopamines
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noun,
Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease.
Compare dopa.
- almonries
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noun,
the place where an almoner resides or where alms are distributed.
- lemonades
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noun,
a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- palinodes
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noun,
a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- plebeians
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noun,
a member of the common people.
- ealdormen
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noun,
alderman.
- domineers
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- Madrilene
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noun,
a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- seriplane
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noun,
a test for evaluating the quality of raw silk by inspecting it under controlled conditions for variations in the diameter of the yarn and for imperfections and content.
- pan-broil
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verb (used with or without object),
to cook in an uncovered frying pan over direct heat using little or no fat.
- oleanders
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noun,
a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- snap-brim
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noun,
a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- Bordelais
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noun,
a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- prolamins
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noun,
any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- soda-lime
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noun,
a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.
- promenade
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noun,
a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- pedlaries
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noun,
peddlery.
- leeboards
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noun,
either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- demeanors
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noun,
conduct; behavior; deportment.
- lop-eared
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adjective,
having ears that droop or hang down.
- Esdraelon
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noun,
a plain in N Israel, extending from the Mediterranean near Mt. Carmel to the Jordan River: scene of ancient battles.
- banderole
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noun,
a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- impleader
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noun,
a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- imboldens
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verb (used with object),
embolden.
- desirable
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noun,
a person or thing that is desirable.
- baseliner
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noun,
a player who typically plays near the baseline using ground strokes, as distinguished from one who typically goes to the net.
- pemolines
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noun,
a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- remolades
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noun,
rémoulade.
- bandoleer
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noun,
a broad belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers and having a number of small loops or pockets, for holding a cartridge or cartridges.
- beanpoles
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noun,
a tall pole for a bean plant to climb on.
- spendable
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adjective,
available for spending.
- misleared
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adjective,
ill-mannered; rude; crude.
- remodels
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verb (used with object),
to model again.
- openable
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adjective,
capable of being opened.
- beam-end
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Idioms,
on her beam-ends, Nautical. heeled so far on one side that the deck is practically vertical:
- Serendip
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noun,
Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- prenames
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noun,
given name.
- Ladrones
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noun,
a thief.
- melodias
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noun,
an 8 feet (2.4 meters) wooden flue-pipe stop organ resembling the clarabella in tone.
- Basildon
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noun,
a town in S Essex, in SE England: designated as a model residential community after World War II.
- moperies
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noun,
mopish behavior.
- oleander
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noun,
a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- prolamin
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noun,
any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- Oberland
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noun,
a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- Landseer
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noun,
Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- sepaloid
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adjective,
resembling a sepal.
- remedial
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adjective,
affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
- aneroids
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noun,
aneroid barometer.
- probands
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noun,
a patient who is the initial member of a family to come under study.
- open-air
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noun,
the outdoors.
- Oedipean
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adjective,
of, relating to, or characteristic of Oedipus or the Oedipus complex.
- Seminole
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noun,
a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- lampions
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noun,
a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- bonspiel
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noun,
a competition or meet in curling at which teams from several clubs or districts compete with one another.
- laminose
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adjective,
laminate; laminar.
- semolina
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noun,
a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- baseline
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noun,
Baseball. the area between bases within which a base runner must keep when running from one base to another.
- melanoid
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adjective,
of or characterized by melanosis.
- imbolden
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verb (used with object),
embolden.
- ordinals
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noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- padrones
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noun,
a master; boss.
- meanders
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noun,
Usually, meanders. turnings or windings; a winding path or course.
- amberoid
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noun,
synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of various resins at a high temperature.
- beadsmen
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noun,
a person who prays for another as a duty, especially when paid.
- broadens
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verb (used with or without object),
to become or make broad.
- pomander
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noun,
a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- beanpole
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noun,
a tall pole for a bean plant to climb on.
- brindles
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noun,
a brindled coloring.
- ambroids
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noun,
amberoid.
- poniards
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noun,
a small, slender dagger.
- leadsmen
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noun,
a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- dropline
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noun,
a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- amerinds
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noun,
Indian (def 1).
- remolade
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noun,
rémoulade.
- bedlamer
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noun,
a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- pralines
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noun,
a French confection consisting of a caramel-covered almond or, sometimes, a hazelnut.
- sidereal
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adjective,
determined by or from the stars:
- bedlamps
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noun,
a lamp at the side or head of a bed.
- preamble
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noun,
an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude.
Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- operable
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adjective,
that can be treated by a surgical operation.
Compare inoperable (def 2).
- earldoms
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noun,
Also called earlship. the rank or title of an earl.
- brandies
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noun,
a spirit distilled from wine or from the fermented juice of grapes or of apples, peaches, plums, etc.
- Brandeis
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noun,
Louis Dembitz [dem-bits] /ˈdɛm bɪts/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, U.S. lawyer and writer: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1916–39.
- bedrails
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noun,
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.
- sidebone
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noun,
ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- earlobes
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noun,
the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- nombrils
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noun,
the point in an escutcheon between the middle of the base and the fess point.
- prolines
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noun,
an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- promisee
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noun,
a person to whom a promise is made.
- Bodleian
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noun,
the library of Oxford University, reestablished by Sir Thomas Bodley, 1545–1613, English diplomat and scholar.
- bilander
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noun,
a small two-masted merchant vessel, a type of hoy distinguished by the trapezoidal shape of the mainsail, used especially on canals and along coasts of the Low Countries.
- neoplasm
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noun,
a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- enmarble
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verb (used with object),
emmarble.
- binormal
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noun,
the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- mineable
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adjective,
minable.
- ensample
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noun,
example.
- mineral.
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- bimensal
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adjective,
occurring once in two months; bimonthly.
- implodes
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verb (used with object),
Phonetics. to pronounce by implosion.
- implores
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verb (used with object),
to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat:
- misbrand
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verb (used with object),
to brand or label erroneously.
- Rosemead
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noun,
a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- Rosedale
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noun,
a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- Rosalind
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noun,
a female given name.
- Balinese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Bali.
- salmonid
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noun,
a salmonid fish.
- ropeable
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adjective,
ropable.
- reasoned
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noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- rebeldom
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noun,
a region or territory controlled by rebels.
- redlines
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noun,
Automotive.
the maximum rotational speed, or angular velocity, of the engine crankshaft that is considered safe: often measured in rpm.
a red line or boundary of a red area that delineates such a value, as on a tachometer.
- naperies
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noun,
table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
- Romanies
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noun,
Gypsy (def 2).
- berlines
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noun,
an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.
- bespread
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verb (used with object),
to spread over (a surface); cover (usually followed by with):
- inbreeds
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verb (used with object),
to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- romaines
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noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- bailsmen
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noun,
a person who gives bail or acts as surety.
- misplead
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verb (used with or without object),
to plead incorrectly.
- redbones
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noun,
an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- inboards
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noun,
an inboard motor.
- impleads
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verb (used with object),
to sue in a court of law.
- Milanese
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- baronies
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noun,
the domain of a baron.
- Belmopan
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noun,
a city in and the capital of Belize, in the central part.
- moraines
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noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- impanels
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verb (used with object),
to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
- psoralen
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noun,
a toxic substance, C 11 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- rideable
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adjective,
ridable.
- Elsinore
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noun,
Helsingør.
- radiomen
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noun,
a person who operates a radio.
- impearls
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verb (used with object),
to form into drops resembling pearls.
- Laborism
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noun,
a political theory favoring the dominance of labor in the economic and political life of a country.
- embodies
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verb (used with object),
to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form:
- embolden
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verb (used with object),
to make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage.
- sea-lion
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noun,
any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- blinders
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noun,
a person or thing that blinds.
- seadrome
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noun,
a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- seaborne
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adjective,
transported by ship over the sea.
- arsenide
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noun,
a compound containing two elements of which arsenic is the negative one, as silver arsenide, Ag 3 As.
- sea-born
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adjective,
born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- embolies
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noun,
the pushing or growth of one part into another, as in the formation of certain gastrulas.
- embroils
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verb (used with object),
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
- espalier
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noun,
a trellis or framework on which the trunk and branches of fruit trees or shrubs are trained to grow in one plane.
- Sarpedon
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noun,
a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- blenders
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noun,
a person or thing that blends.
- emersion
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noun,
Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit.
Compare immersion (def 5).
- isoprene
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- bandores
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noun,
an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- emplanes
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verb (used with or without object),
enplane.
- meropias
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noun,
partial blindness.
- islander
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noun,
a native or inhabitant of an island.
- rampions
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noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- bismanol
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noun,
a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- empanels
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verb (used with object),
impanel.
- peroneal
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adjective,
pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- Leopardi
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noun,
Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- Solimena
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noun,
Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- doberman
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noun,
Doberman pinscher.
- pelorias
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noun,
regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- ailerons
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noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- darioles
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noun,
a small round mold.
- manropes
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noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- spandrel
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noun,
Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- domineer
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verb (used with or without object),
to rule arbitrarily or despotically; tyrannize.
- pembinas
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noun,
highbush cranberry.
- deniable
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adjective,
capable of being or liable to be denied or contradicted.
- pi-meson
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noun,
pion.
- leporide
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noun,
a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.
- mandrels
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noun,
a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
- limeades
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noun,
a beverage consisting of lime juice, a sweetener, and plain or carbonated water.
- parodies
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noun,
a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing:
- Personae
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noun,
a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- pleaders
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noun,
a person who pleads, especially at law.
- personal
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noun,
a short news paragraph in a newspaper concerning a particular person, as one who is socially prominent, or a group of particular persons who are socially prominent.
a brief, private notice in a newspaper or magazine, often addressed to a particular person, and typically bearing an abbreviated salutation and signature to preserve its confidentiality, usually printed in a special part of the classified advertising section.
Also called personal ad. a similar notice, as in a newspaper or on a website, placed by a person seeking companionship, a spouse, etc.
Usually, personals. a column, page, or section, as of a newspaper, magazine, or website, featuring such notices or items.
- dalesmen
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noun,
a person living in a dale or valley, especially in the northern counties of England.
- delaines
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noun,
(initial capital letter) Delaine Merino.
- marlines
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noun,
small stuff of two-fiber strands, sometimes tarred, laid up left-handed.
- spermine
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noun,
a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- demeanor
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noun,
conduct; behavior; deportment.
- leporine
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adjective,
of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.
- spearmen
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noun,
a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- airspeed
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noun,
the forward speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it moves.
- pioneers
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- linebred
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adjective,
produced by linebreeding.
- parboils
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verb (used with object),
to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- demersal
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adjective,
living or found near or in the deepest part of a body of water.
- aldermen
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noun,
a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- Alberoni
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noun,
Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1664–1752, Italian cardinal and statesman: prime minister of Spain 1715–19.
- Peronism
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noun,
the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- demireps
-
noun,
a demimondaine.
- diaspore
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noun,
a mineral, aluminum oxyhydroxide, AlO(OH), occurring in crystals, or more usually in lamellar or scaly masses: a principal constituent of bauxite and an important source of aluminum.
- Leonidas
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noun,
died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- periblem
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noun,
the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- solander
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noun,
a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- Perelman
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noun,
S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- alienors
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noun,
a person who transfers property.
- maniples
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noun,
(in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- madrones
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noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- sleep-in
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noun,
a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.
- mandible
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noun,
the bone of the lower jaw.
- lemonade
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noun,
a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- dopamine
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noun,
Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease.
Compare dopa.
- almoners
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noun,
a person whose function or duty is the distribution of alms on behalf of an institution, a royal personage, a monastery, etc.
- pleonasm
-
noun,
the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pemoline
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noun,
a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
- piebalds
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noun,
a piebald animal, especially a horse.
- palinode
-
noun,
a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- do-re-mi
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noun,
money.
- debonair
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adjective,
courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm:
- parolees
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noun,
a person who is released from prison on parole.
- soredial
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adjective,
pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- Lombardi
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noun,
Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- bromines
-
noun,
an element that is a dark-reddish, fuming, toxic liquid and a member of the halogen family: obtained from natural brines and ocean water, and used chiefly in the manufacture of gasoline antiknock compounds, pharmaceuticals, and dyes. Symbol: Br; atomic weight: 79.909; atomic number: 35; specific gravity: 3.119 at 20°C.
- somedeal
-
adverb,
somewhat.
- lie-abed
-
noun,
a person who remains in bed until a relatively late hour; late riser.
- lempiras
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- leeboard
-
noun,
either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- Pleiades
-
noun,
any of the Pleiades.
- deplanes
-
verb (used without object),
to disembark from an airplane.
- almeries
-
noun,
ambry.
- plebeian
-
noun,
a member of the common people.
- splendor
-
noun,
brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence:
- deplores
-
verb (used with object),
to regret deeply or strongly; lament:
- Persian
-
noun,
a member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- Epsilon
-
noun,
the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
- besmear
-
verb (used with object),
to smear all over; bedaub.
- bipedal
-
adjective,
biped.
- realism
-
noun,
interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- Deloria
-
noun,
Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- endorse
-
noun,
Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times.
- erasion
-
noun,
the act of erasing.
- dimples
-
noun,
a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- biplane
-
noun,
an airplane with two sets of wings, one above and usually slightly forward of the other.
- Pearson
-
noun,
Drew (Andrew Russell Pearson) 1897–1969, U.S. journalist.
- binders
-
noun,
a person or thing that binds.
- Delorme
-
noun,
Philibert [fee-lee-ber] /fi liˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1515?–70, French architect.
- bipolar
-
adjective,
having two poles, as the earth.
- paroles
-
noun,
Penology.
the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed.
such release or its duration.
an official document authorizing such a release.
- Delores
-
noun,
a female given name.
- debones
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone:
- Delibes
-
noun,
(Clément Philibert) Léo [kley-mahn fee-lee-ber ley-aw] /kleɪˈmɑ̃ fi liˈbɛr leɪˈɔ/ (Show IPA), 1836–91, French composer, especially of operas, operettas, and ballets.
- enrobes
-
verb (used with object),
to dress; attire:
- Delaine
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Delaine Merino.
- epimers
-
noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- pebrine
-
noun,
an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.
- epinaos
-
noun,
a rear vestibule, as of a classical temple.
- bindles
-
noun,
a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.
- episode
-
noun,
an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
- rapines
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- readies
-
noun,
the state or condition of being ready.
- diploma
-
noun,
a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- episome
-
noun,
bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal and that may replicate autonomously as a plasmid or become incorporated into the chromosome and replicate with it.
- persona
-
noun,
a person.
- piebald
-
noun,
a piebald animal, especially a horse.
- dipoles
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- Delanos
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- dineros
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- Perseid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- bimodal
-
adjective,
having or providing two modes, methods, systems, etc.
- bromide
-
noun,
Chemistry.
a salt of hydrobromic acid consisting of two elements, one of which is bromine, as sodium bromide, NaBr.
a compound containing bromine, as methyl bromide.
- Permian
-
noun,
Geology. the Permian Period or System.
- bedsore
-
noun,
an ulceration of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by poor circulation due to prolonged pressure on body parts, especially bony protuberances, occurring in bedridden or immobile patients; decubitus ulcer.
- beldams
-
noun,
an old woman, especially an ugly one; hag.
- despoil
-
verb (used with object),
to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- peonies
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- moraine
-
noun,
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- remands
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- pensile
-
adjective,
hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- despair
-
noun,
loss of hope; hopelessness.
- reminds
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- remiped
-
noun,
a remiped animal.
- deperms
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce the permanent magnetism of (a vessel) by wrapping an electric cable around it vertically athwartships and energizing the cable.
- deplane
-
verb (used without object),
to disembark from an airplane.
- remodel
-
verb (used with object),
to model again.
- deplore
-
verb (used with object),
to regret deeply or strongly; lament:
- depones
-
verb (used with or without object),
to testify under oath; depose.
- deposal
-
noun,
an act of deposing.
- morales
-
noun,
emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.:
- bedrail
-
noun,
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.
- bedpans
-
noun,
a shallow toilet pan for use by persons confined to bed.
- bedlams
-
noun,
a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
- bedlamp
-
noun,
a lamp at the side or head of a bed.
- derails
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- monesia
-
noun,
a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- Derbies
-
noun,
a city in Derbyshire in central England.
- Bearden
-
noun,
Romare Howard [roh-mair] /ˈroʊ mɛər/ (Show IPA), 1911–88, U.S. artist.
- Mondale
-
noun,
Walter Frederick ("Fritz") born 1928, U.S. politician: senator 1965–77; vice president 1977–81.
- monades
-
noun,
plural of monas.
- Peneios
-
noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- dereism
-
noun,
autism.
- reopens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- Lombard
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- Belinda
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old Spanish word meaning “beautiful.”.
- redbone
-
noun,
an American hound having a red coat, used in hunting raccoons, bears, cougars, and wildcats.
- perinde
-
adverb,
(in prescriptions) in the same manner as before.
- nailers
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- demeans
-
noun,
Archaic. demeanor.
- Demerol
-
- berlins
-
noun,
a large, four-wheeled, closed carriage hung between two perches and having two interior seats.
- berline
-
noun,
an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.
- berimes
-
verb (used with object),
berhyme.
- redline
-
noun,
Automotive.
the maximum rotational speed, or angular velocity, of the engine crankshaft that is considered safe: often measured in rpm.
a red line or boundary of a red area that delineates such a value, as on a tachometer.
- Perlman
-
noun,
Itzhak [ee-tsahk,, it-zahk] /ˈi tsɑk,, ˈɪt zɑk/ (Show IPA), born 1945, U.S. violinist, born in Israel.
- pedlars
-
noun,
peddler.
- Morelia
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Michoacán, in central Mexico.
- birdman
-
noun,
an ornithologist.
- Benemid
-
- demirep
-
noun,
a demimondaine.
- reedman
-
noun,
a musician who plays a reed instrument.
- peloria
-
noun,
regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
- Pembina
-
noun,
highbush cranberry.
- benders
-
noun,
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
- pereion
-
noun,
(in a crustacean) the thorax.
- moreens
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- Benares
-
noun,
a former name of Varanasi.
- benames
-
verb (used with object),
to name; call by name.
- bemoans
-
verb (used with object),
to express distress or grief over; lament:
- dialers
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- bemires
-
verb (used with object),
to soil with mire; dirty or muddy:
- espanol
-
noun,
the Spanish language.
- bemeans
-
verb (used with object),
to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).
- re-laid
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of re-lay.
- relapse
-
noun,
an act or instance of relapsing.
- Morandi
-
noun,
Giorgio [jawr-jaw] /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1964, Italian painter.
- deniers
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- endears
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- empales
-
verb (used with object),
impale (defs 1–5).
- disable
-
verb (used with object),
to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate:
- premeds
-
noun,
a program of premedical study or training.
- earlobe
-
noun,
the soft, pendulous lower part of the external ear.
- plasmo-
-
- domines
-
noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- openers
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- brained
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- Daimler
-
noun,
Gottlieb (Wilhelm) [got-leeb-wil-helm;; German gawt-leep-vil-helm] /ˈgɒt libˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈgɔt lipˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1834–1900, German automotive engineer, inventor, and manufacturer.
- predial
-
adjective,
praedial.
- daimons
-
noun,
daemon.
- Opaline
-
adjective,
of or like opal; opalescent.
- prelim.
-
- dominee
-
noun,
dominie (def 2).
- oneidas
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- plasmin
-
noun,
fibrinolysin.
- premise
-
noun,
Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- palsied
-
noun,
any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- prename
-
noun,
given name.
- plasmid
-
noun,
a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- ebonies
-
noun,
a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- presale
-
noun,
a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- Edelman
-
noun,
Gerald Maurice, 1929–2014, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1972.
- preside
-
verb (used without object),
to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- borides
-
noun,
a compound consisting of two elements of which boron is the more electronegative one.
- planers
-
noun,
Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
- panders
-
noun,
a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- dolmens
-
noun,
a structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone.
- edibles
-
noun,
Usually, edibles. edible substances; food.
- bordels
-
noun,
a brothel.
- dolmans
-
noun,
a woman's mantle with capelike arm pieces instead of sleeves.
- pandies
-
noun,
a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- prebend
-
noun,
a stipend allotted from the revenues of a cathedral or a collegiate church to a canon or member of the chapter.
- pleader
-
noun,
a person who pleads, especially at law.
- oilseed
-
noun,
any of several seeds, as the castor bean, sesame, or cottonseed, from which an oil is expressed.
- Brindle
-
noun,
a brindled coloring.
- bromals
-
noun,
an oily, colorless liquid, CBr 3 CHO, used in medicine chiefly as an anodyne and hypnotic.
- bromine
-
noun,
an element that is a dark-reddish, fuming, toxic liquid and a member of the halogen family: obtained from natural brines and ocean water, and used chiefly in the manufacture of gasoline antiknock compounds, pharmaceuticals, and dyes. Symbol: Br; atomic weight: 79.909; atomic number: 35; specific gravity: 3.119 at 20°C.
- dormins
-
noun,
abscisic acid.
- polders
-
noun,
a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- padrone
-
noun,
a master; boss.
- padrino
-
noun,
a godfather.
- Polaris
-
noun,
Astronomy. the polestar or North Star, a star of the second magnitude situated close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor: the outermost star in the handle of the Little Dipper.
- broaden
-
verb (used with or without object),
to become or make broad.
- pomades
-
noun,
a scented ointment, especially one used for the scalp or for dressing the hair.
- Palermo
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Sicily, in the NW part.
- Osmanli
-
noun,
an Ottoman.
- orpines
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- ponders
-
verb (used with object),
to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully:
- poniard
-
noun,
a small, slender dagger.
- Brandes
-
noun,
Georg Morris [ge-ohrg moh-ris] /gɛˈoʊrg ˈmoʊ rɪs/ (Show IPA), (Georg Morris Cohen) 1842–1927, Danish historian and literary critic.
- bridles
-
noun,
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- Orleans
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loiret, in central France, SSW of Paris: English siege of the city raised by Joan of Arc 1428.
- bridals
-
noun,
a wedding.
- oreides
-
noun,
oroide.
- ordinal
-
noun,
an ordinal number or numeral.
- ordeals
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- praline
-
noun,
a French confection consisting of a caramel-covered almond or, sometimes, a hazelnut.
- pleiads
-
noun,
any of the Pleiades.
- ordains
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- oralism
-
noun,
the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- operand
-
noun,
a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- palmers
-
noun,
a pilgrim, especially of the Middle Ages, who had returned from the Holy Land bearing a palm branch as a token.
- branles
-
noun,
a lively 16th- and 17th-century round dance originating in France.
- donable
-
adjective,
available free from government surpluses:
- dampens
-
verb (used with object),
to make damp; moisten:
- boranes
-
noun,
any of the compounds, both neutral and anionic, of boron and hydrogen with formulas ranging from B 2 H 6 to B 20 H 16 .
- birdmen
-
noun,
an ornithologist.
- rambles
-
noun,
a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure.
- darnels
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- radomes
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- pinards
-
noun,
wine.
- parison
-
noun,
a partially shaped mass of molten glass.
- embroil
-
verb (used with object),
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
- blendes
-
noun,
sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
- blender
-
noun,
a person or thing that blends.
- nimrods
-
noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- Emerald
-
noun,
a rare variety of beryl that is colored green by chromium and valued as a gem.
- Pilsner
-
noun,
a pale, light lager beer.
- Emerson
-
noun,
Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
- parolee
-
noun,
a person who is released from prison on parole.
- Nidaros
-
noun,
former name of Trondheim.
- empanel
-
verb (used with object),
impanel.
- Dnieper
-
noun,
a river rising in the W Russian Federation flowing S through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Ukraine to the Black Sea. 1400 miles (2250 km) long.
- emplane
-
verb (used with or without object),
enplane.
- Emporia
-
noun,
a city in E Kansas.
- emprise
-
noun,
an adventurous enterprise.
- disrobe
-
verb (used with or without object),
to undress.
- Nereids
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- rampion
-
noun,
a European bellflower, Campanula rapunculus, having an edible white tuberous root used in Europe for salad.
- dealers
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- randies
-
noun,
Chiefly Scot. a rude or coarse beggar.
- enables
-
verb (used with object),
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
- randoms
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- dearies
-
noun,
darling.
- enamels
-
noun,
a glassy substance, usually opaque, applied by fusion to the surface of metal, pottery, etc., as an ornament or for protection.
- enamors
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- biremes
-
noun,
a galley having two banks or tiers of oars.
- blinder
-
noun,
a person or thing that blinds.
- Darlene
-
noun,
a female given name: from the Old English word meaning “darling.”.
- dampers
-
noun,
a person or thing that damps or depresses:
- Eleanor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- Oedipal
-
adjective,
of, characterized by, or resulting from the Oedipus complex.
- Dampier
-
noun,
William, 1652–1715, English navigator, explorer, buccaneer, and writer.
- Oberlin
-
noun,
Jean Frédéric [French zhahn frey-dey-reek] /French ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1740–1826, Alsatian clergyman.
- paniers
-
noun,
pannier.
- obelias
-
noun,
a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- elapids
-
noun,
any of numerous cosmopolitan snakes of the family Elapidae, having permanently erect fangs in the front of the upper jaw and including the New World coral snakes, the cobras, and most Australian snakes.
- parboil
-
verb (used with object),
to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- Bonaire
-
noun,
an island in the E Netherlands Antilles, in the S West Indies. 95 sq. mi. (245 sq. km).
- proband
-
noun,
a patient who is the initial member of a family to come under study.
- Pioneer
-
noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- oarsmen
-
noun,
a person who rows a boat, especially a racing boat; rower.
- bolides
-
noun,
a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.
- normals
-
adjective,
conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- problem
-
noun,
any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- elepaio
-
noun,
a small brown-backed or gray-backed Hawaiian flycatcher, Chasiempis sandwichensis, having white wing bars, a white rump, and a blackish cocked tail.
- dariole
-
noun,
a small round mold.
- boilers
-
noun,
a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which steam or other vapor is generated from water to drive turbines or engines, supply heat, process certain materials, etc.
Compare fire-tube boiler, water-tube boiler.
- proline
-
noun,
an alcohol-soluble amino acid, C 4 H 9 NHCOOH, occurring in high concentration in collagen. Symbol: P. Abbreviation: Pro;
- Daniels
-
noun,
Jonathan Worth, 1902–81, U.S. journalist, editor, and author.
- pinoles
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- nombril
-
noun,
the point in an escutcheon between the middle of the base and the fess point.
- nombles
-
plural noun,
numbles.
- dapsone
-
noun,
an antibacterial substance, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 2 S, used to treat leprosy and certain forms of dermatitis.
- promise
-
noun,
a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one:
- pardons
-
noun,
kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience:
- darbies
-
noun,
a float having two handles, used by plasterers.
- elodeas
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- Elpenor
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a companion of Odysseus who was killed when he fell off the roof of Circe's palace.
- pinders
-
noun,
peanut.
- Blondie
-
noun,
Informal. a blond person:
- prelims
-
noun,
preliminary.
- earldom
-
noun,
Also called earlship. the rank or title of an earl.
- repeals
-
noun,
the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.
- aperies
-
noun,
apish behavior; mimicry.
- aileron
-
noun,
Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
- soldier
-
noun,
a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- sedarim
-
noun,
a plural of Seder.
- Lesbian
-
noun,
an inhabitant of Lesbos.
- marbles
-
noun,
metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- Seeland
-
noun,
Zealand.
- apodeme
-
noun,
a ridgelike ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports the internal organs and provides the attachment points for the muscles.
- aplombs
-
noun,
imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
- Ladinos
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- ladrone
-
noun,
a thief.
- menials
-
noun,
a domestic servant.
- leprose
-
adjective,
leprous.
- leproma
-
noun,
the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- labored
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- seleno-
-
- leporid
-
noun,
an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- lepido-
-
- albedos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- menders
-
noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- seminal
-
adjective,
pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- seminar
-
noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- leopard
-
noun,
a large, spotted Asian or African carnivore, Panthera pardus, of the cat family, usually tawny with black markings; the Old World panther: all leopard populations are threatened or endangered.
- semipro
-
adjective, noun,
semiprofessional.
- albinos
-
noun,
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
- anisole
-
noun,
a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, having a pleasant, aromatic odor, used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis, and as a vermicide.
- Leonids
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- manrope
-
noun,
a rope placed at the side of a gangway, ladder, or the like, to serve as a rail.
- Meriden
-
noun,
a city in central Connecticut.
- lampers
-
noun,
lampas.
- soredia
-
noun,
a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- Salerno
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943.
- Ireland
-
noun,
John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- admires
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- mildens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become mild or milder.
- limeade
-
noun,
a beverage consisting of lime juice, a sweetener, and plain or carbonated water.
- limbers
-
noun,
a two-wheeled vehicle, originally pulled by four or six horses, behind which is towed a field gun or caisson.
- arseno-
-
- Isadore
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Greek word meaning “gift of Isis.”.
- sampler
-
noun,
a person who samples.
- Malines
-
noun,
Also, maline. a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.
- meropia
-
noun,
partial blindness.
- Meropes
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- malison
-
noun,
a curse.
- soliped
-
noun,
solidungulate.
- aediles
-
noun,
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- Sorbian
-
noun,
Also called Lusatian, Wendish. a Slavic language spoken by an isolated group in E Germany.
- liernes
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- merlons
-
noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- saprobe
-
noun,
saprophyte.
- sardine
-
noun,
the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
- merlins
-
noun,
a small, bold falcon, Falco columbarius, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- aerobes
-
noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- merinos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- seabird
-
noun,
a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- areoles
-
noun,
an areola.
- maniple
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- arenose
-
adjective,
sandy; gritty.
- aniseed
-
noun,
the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- lampion
-
noun,
a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- mailers
-
noun,
a person who mails or prepares material for mailing.
- Maspero
-
noun,
Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- sideman
-
noun,
an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- sidemen
-
noun,
an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- slender
-
adjective,
having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length:
- side-on
-
adverb,
with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:
- amidols
-
noun,
a colorless, crystalline powder, C 6 H 8 N 2 O⋅2HCl, derived from phenol, used chiefly as a photographic developer.
- medlars
-
noun,
a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- medinas
-
noun,
the old Arab quarter of a North African city.
- sidero-
-
- AmerInd
-
noun,
Indian (def 1).
- medials
-
noun,
Phonetics.
a medial sound or letter.
media2 (def 1).
- slander
-
noun,
defamation; calumny:
- alpines
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Anthropology. a member of a Caucasoid people found in central Europe and characterized by heavy body build, medium complexion, and straight to wavy hair.
- leaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- almoner
-
noun,
a person whose function or duty is the distribution of alms on behalf of an institution, a royal personage, a monastery, etc.
- lead-in
-
noun,
something that leads in or introduces; introduction; opening.
- ameboid
-
adjective,
resembling or related to amebas.
- Leander
-
noun,
a Greek youth, the lover of Hero, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit her until he was drowned in a storm.
- Ambrose
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 340?–397, bishop of Milan 374–397.
- ambroid
-
noun,
amberoid.
- meander
-
noun,
Usually, meanders. turnings or windings; a winding path or course.
- ambries
-
noun,
Also called armarium. Ecclesiastical. a recess in the wall of a church or a cupboard in the sacristy where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc., are kept.
- ambeers
-
noun,
tobacco juice.
- leaners
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- Amboise
-
noun,
a town in central France, E of Tours: castle.
- measled
-
adjective,
(of swine or other livestock) affected with measles.
- Learned
-
adjective,
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite:
- Simplon
-
noun,
a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- Melanie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- sidebar
-
noun,
follow-up (def 3b).
- Melrose
-
noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- Melinda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Leonard
-
noun,
Sugar Ray (Ray Charles Leonard) born 1956, U.S. boxer.
- Landers
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- smolder
-
noun,
dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
- Marisol
-
noun,
(Marisol Escobar) born 1930, Venezuelan artist, in U.S. since 1950.
- aneroid
-
noun,
aneroid barometer.
- aldrins
-
noun,
a brown, water-insoluble, toxic solid consisting of more than 95 percent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon C 12 H 8 Cl 6 : used as an insecticide.
- Marlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Alebion
-
noun,
a son of Poseidon who, with his brother Dercynus, was killed by Hercules while attempting to steal the cattle that Hercules had taken from Geryon.
- meloids
-
noun,
a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.
- Melodie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- alerion
-
noun,
an eagle displayed, usually represented without a beak or legs.
- Marline
-
noun,
small stuff of two-fiber strands, sometimes tarred, laid up left-handed.
- melodia
-
noun,
an 8 feet (2.4 meters) wooden flue-pipe stop organ resembling the clarabella in tone.
- alienor
-
noun,
a person who transfers property.
- sidearm
-
adverb,
with a swinging motion of the arm moving to the side of the body at shoulder level or below and nearly parallel to the ground:
- marlins
-
noun,
any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.
- Serbian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Serbia, especially one of the Slavic peoples inhabiting it.
- Lenapes
-
noun,
Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- alipeds
-
noun,
an aliped animal.
- melders
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- amperes
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- Moliere
-
noun,
(Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622–73, French actor and playwright.
- Ampelos
-
noun,
a satyr who was placed among the stars by Dionysus.
- seriema
-
noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- lardons
-
noun,
a strip of fat used in larding, especially as drawn through the substance of meat, chicken, etc., with a kind of needle or pin.
- slip-on
-
noun,
something made this way, especially an article of clothing.
- lempira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- melano-
-
- spaniel
-
noun,
one of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized dogs, usually having a long, silky coat and long, drooping ears.
- mandrel
-
noun,
a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
- milords
-
noun,
an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
- Maderno
-
noun,
Carlo [kahr-law] /ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1556–1629, Italian architect.
- Abilene
-
noun,
a city in central Texas.
- impends
-
verb (used without object),
to be imminent; be about to happen.
- spindle
-
noun,
a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- impers.
-
- rimples
-
noun,
a wrinkle.
- implead
-
verb (used with object),
to sue in a court of law.
- bandore
-
noun,
an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- bandies
-
noun,
an early form of tennis.
- implode
-
verb (used with object),
Phonetics. to pronounce by implosion.
- implore
-
verb (used with object),
to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat:
- robands
-
noun,
a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- linseed
-
noun,
flaxseed.
- impones
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- lipread
-
verb (used with object),
to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- baleens
-
noun,
whalebone (def 1).
- impresa
-
noun,
a device or emblem.
- misread
-
verb (used with or without object),
to read wrongly.
- inboard
-
noun,
an inboard motor.
- Spieler
-
noun,
a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- inbreed
-
verb (used with object),
to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- Romaine
-
noun,
Also called romaine lettuce, cos, cos lettuce. a variety of lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves.
- bailors
-
noun,
a person who delivers personal property in bailment.
- Madison
-
noun,
Dolly or Dolley [dol-ee] /ˈdɒl i/ (Show IPA), (Dorothea Payne) 1768–1849, wife of James Madison.
- bailees
-
noun,
a person to whom personal property is delivered in bailment.
- mislead
-
verb (used with object),
to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
- Romains
-
noun,
Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- spermo-
-
- lipomas
-
noun,
a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- spinode
-
noun,
cusp (def 3).
- indoles
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- moderne
-
adjective,
pretentiously modern; striving to appear modern but lacking style or conviction.
- Londres
-
noun,
a cylindrically shaped cigar of medium to large size.
- loaners
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- molders
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- spondee
-
noun,
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- spoiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that spoils.
- repines
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- replies
-
noun,
an answer or response in words or writing.
- lopseed
-
noun,
a weedy plant, Phryma leptostachya, of Asia and North America, having spikes of whitish paired flowers.
- reposal
-
noun,
the act of reposing.
- spleno-
-
- re-pose
-
verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- loaders
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- moderns
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- Loraine
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- Bardeen
-
noun,
John, 1908–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956, 1972.
- spireme
-
noun,
the threadlike chromatin of a cell nucleus, present during early meiosis or mitosis.
- abdomen
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
the part of the body of a mammal between the thorax and the pelvis; belly.
the cavity of this part of the body containing the stomach, intestines, etc.
(in nonmammalian vertebrates) a region of the body corresponding to, but not coincident with, this part or cavity.
- mobiles
-
noun,
a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
Compare stabile (def 3).
- basemen
-
noun,
a first, second, or third baseman.
- respond
-
noun,
Architecture. a half pier, pilaster, or the like projecting from a wall as a support for a lintel or an arch, the other side of which is supported on a free-standing pier or column.
- impales
-
verb (used with object),
to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- ribalds
-
noun,
a ribald person.
- impanel
-
verb (used with object),
to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
- ribands
-
noun,
a decorative ribbon.
- impearl
-
verb (used with object),
to form into drops resembling pearls.
- ridable
-
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- impedes
-
verb (used with object),
to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- Spender
-
noun,
a person who spends, especially one who habitually spends excessively or lavishly; spendthrift.
- ambiens
-
- sparoid
-
noun,
a sparoid fish.
- Rosalie
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning rose festival.
- ropable
-
adjective,
capable of being roped.
- rondels
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- minable
-
adjective,
capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- Linares
-
noun,
a city in S Spain.
- minders
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- misdeal
-
noun,
Cards. a deal in which the wrong number of cards have been distributed or in which the cards were dealt in the wrong order or manner, necessitating a new deal and the cancellation of any points made on the hand, sometimes with a penalty to the dealer.
- madrone
-
noun,
any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- Mirabel
-
noun,
a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- indorse
-
verb (used with object),
endorse.
- Adeline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adele.
- inroads
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- adipose
-
noun,
animal fat stored in the fatty tissue of the body.
- Mineola
-
noun,
a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- limners
-
noun,
a person who paints or draws.
- Maidens
-
noun,
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
- sadiron
-
noun,
Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. Older Use. a flatiron that is pointed at both ends and has a detachable handle.
- diploe
-
noun,
the cancellate bony tissue between the hard inner and outer walls of the bones of the cranium.
- lemans
-
noun,
a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
- Lisbon
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Portugal, in the SW part, on the Tagus estuary.
- Lorain
-
noun,
a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- diplo-
-
- lorans
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- dipole
-
noun,
Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- Lemnos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 186 sq. mi. (480 sq. km). Capital: Myrina.
- dinars
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- Limber
-
noun,
a two-wheeled vehicle, originally pulled by four or six horses, behind which is towed a field gun or caisson.
- limbed
-
noun,
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
- Marlon
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Li-sao
-
noun,
a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan.
- Lorena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lorens
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- loader
-
noun,
a person or thing that loads.
- limbas
-
noun,
an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- Lenape
-
noun,
Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- Malden
-
noun,
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- maline
-
noun,
Also, maline. a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.
- donsie
-
adjective,
Midland U.S. somewhat sick, weak, or lacking in vitality; not completely well.
- diable
-
adjective,
highly spiced; prepared with hot or piquant seasoning; deviled.
- donees
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- parson
-
noun,
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- Diablo
-
noun,
Spanish for “devil.”.
- palmed
-
noun,
the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- paleon
-
- paries
-
noun,
Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- dopers
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- paedo-
-
- desire
-
noun,
a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment:
- lopers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- mealie
-
noun,
Sometimes, mealies. corn; maize.
- mailes
-
noun,
a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.
- pedals
-
noun,
a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- loaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that loans.
- diners
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- mbiras
-
noun,
a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- limens
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- loners
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- dorsal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a dorsal speech sound.
- dinero
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Peru, the 10th part of a sol.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- dermo-
-
- desman
-
noun,
either of two aquatic, insectivorous mammals, Myogale moschata, of southeastern Russia, or M. pyrenaica, of the Pyrenees, related to shrews.
- limbos
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- paleo-
-
- Dorian
-
noun,
a member of a people who entered Greece about the 12th century b.c., conquered the Peloponnesus, and destroyed the Mycenaean culture: one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Compare Achaean (def 5), Aeolian (def 2), Ionian (def 3).
- pairle
-
noun,
a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y -shaped form covered with crosses.
- pained
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- Doreen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Palmer
-
noun,
a pilgrim, especially of the Middle Ages, who had returned from the Holy Land bearing a palm branch as a token.
- Leipoa
-
noun,
mallee fowl.
- peasen
-
noun,
a plural of pease.
- dories
-
noun,
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
- maslin
-
noun,
a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat.
- desorb
-
verb (used with object),
to remove an absorbate or adsorbate from (an absorbent or adsorbent).
- paeons
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- Leiden
-
noun,
a city in W Netherlands.
- dormie
-
adjective,
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
- dormin
-
noun,
abscisic acid.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- pedion
-
noun,
a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- mailed
-
noun,
letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system:
- Lenard
-
noun,
Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- dienes
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Mariel
-
noun,
a city and seaport of Cuba, on the W coast, SW of Havana.
- MAeroE
-
- lidars
-
noun,
a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- Madero
-
noun,
Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- lepers
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- Pansil
-
noun,
Pancha Sila.
- panier
-
noun,
pannier.
- Diesel
-
noun,
diesel engine.
- pedlar
-
noun,
peddler.
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- pedros
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- dibrom
-
- Pelion
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- panels
-
noun,
a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- dobras
-
noun,
any of various former Portuguese coins, especially a gold coin of John V equal to two johannes.
- pardon
-
noun,
kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience:
- dimers
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- Maoris
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- liards
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- libers
-
noun,
phloem.
- linear
-
adjective,
of, consisting of, or using lines:
- libras
-
noun,
the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- doable
-
adjective,
capable of being done.
- parens
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- lesion
-
noun,
an injury; hurt; wound.
- Doblin
-
noun,
Alfred [ahl-freyt] /ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1878–1957, German physician and novelist.
- liners
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- Marble
-
noun,
metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- parles
-
noun, verb (used without object),
talk; parley.
- Lerida
-
noun,
a city in NE Spain.
- madres
-
noun,
mother1 .
- doblas
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain.
- parole
-
noun,
Penology.
the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed.
such release or its duration.
an official document authorizing such a release.
- dorsi-
-
- dialer
-
noun,
a person or thing that dials.
- Lenoir
-
noun,
Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- maiden
-
noun,
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
- marled
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- diaper
-
noun,
a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- lipoma
-
noun,
a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- disbar
-
verb (used with object),
to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- Lenore
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- disarm
-
verb (used with object),
to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- lipase
-
noun,
any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- Marlin
-
noun,
any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.
- Libera
-
noun,
an ancient Italian goddess of wine, vineyards, and fertility and the wife of Liber, in later times identified with Persephone.
- Mailer
-
noun,
a person who mails or prepares material for mailing.
- parols
-
noun,
something stated or declared.
- Parsee
-
noun,
an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- dismal
-
noun,
Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.
- domine
-
noun,
lord; master (used as a title of address).
- peloid
-
noun,
mud used therapeutically.
- Marino
-
noun,
Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- limner
-
noun,
a person who paints or draws.
- Mandel
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dolmas
-
noun,
a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.
- dolmen
-
noun,
a structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone.
- dispel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate:
- Leonid
-
noun,
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- DOMAIN
-
noun,
a field of action, thought, influence, etc.:
- Pamirs
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- pander
-
noun,
a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- dimple
-
noun,
a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- leones
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- Malone
-
noun,
Edmond, 1741–1812, Irish literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
- lierne
-
noun,
an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
- Marion
-
noun,
Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- dolman
-
noun,
a woman's mantle with capelike arm pieces instead of sleeves.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- learns
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- minder
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination):
- milers
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- Enders
-
noun,
John Franklin, 1897–1985, U.S. bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
- Milner
-
noun,
Alfred, 1st Viscount, 1854–1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
- milord
-
noun,
an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
- Nepali
-
noun,
Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- enisle
-
verb (used with object),
to make an island of.
- irades
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- milpas
-
noun,
(in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
- Nemrod
-
noun,
Nimrod (def 1).
- enrobe
-
verb (used with object),
to dress; attire:
- enrols
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- irones
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- ensile
-
verb (used with object),
to preserve (green fodder) in a silo.
- nebris
-
noun,
a fawn skin worn in Greek mythology by Dionysus and his followers.
- insole
-
noun,
the inner sole of a shoe or boot.
- Eolian
-
noun,
Aeolian2 (def 3).
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- eonism
-
noun,
the adoption of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc., by a male.
- neaped
-
adjective,
grounded until the next cycle of spring tides.
- inroad
-
noun,
a damaging or serious encroachment:
- epimer
-
noun,
either of a pair of isomeric aldose compounds, especially of certain sugars, that differ from each other in the positions of the H and OH at the second atom from the end of the carbon chain, as d-glucose and d-mannose.
- milden
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become mild or milder.
- endear
-
verb (used with object),
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved:
- Miseno
-
noun,
a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.
- Ismael
-
noun,
Ishmael (def 1).
- nimble
-
adjective,
quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid:
- isomer
-
noun,
Chemistry. a compound displaying isomerism with one or more other compounds.
- nerols
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Isolde
-
noun,
German name of Iseult.
- empale
-
verb (used with object),
impale (defs 1–5).
- Isolda
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Iseult.
- isobar
-
noun,
Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- Merope
-
noun,
a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
- Empire
-
noun,
a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- Empson
-
noun,
William, 1906–84, English critic and poet.
- mid-on
-
noun,
the position of a fielder on the on side of the wicket.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- Island
-
noun,
a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- Nereid
-
noun,
any elongate cylindrical worm of the polychaete family Nereididae, including clamworms.
- Merops
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- enable
-
verb (used with object),
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
- mesail
-
noun,
a pivoted piece on a helmet between a visor and a beaver.
- mesial
-
adjective,
medial.
- enamel
-
noun,
a glassy substance, usually opaque, applied by fusion to the surface of metal, pottery, etc., as an ornament or for protection.
- enamor
-
verb (used with object),
to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with):
- Isabel
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Napoli
-
noun,
Italian name of Naples.
- Indore
-
noun,
a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- emends
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- moires
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- dermas
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- mopeds
-
noun,
a motorized bicycle that has pedals in addition to a low-powered gasoline engine designed for low-speed operation.
- Mobile
-
noun,
a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
Compare stabile (def 3).
- monies
-
noun,
a plural of money.
- imbeds
-
verb (used with object),
embed.
- Modena
-
noun,
a city in N Italy, NW of Bologna.
- Modern
-
noun,
a person of modern times.
- monied
-
adjective,
moneyed.
- Moerae
-
plural noun,
the Fates.
- Moesia
-
noun,
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- monial
-
noun,
a mullion.
- morale
-
noun,
emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.:
- molars
-
noun,
Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- I-beam
-
noun,
a rolled or extruded metal beam having a cross section resembling an I.
Compare H-beam.
- Monera
-
noun,
a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- mondes
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- monads
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- idlers
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- molder
-
noun,
a person or thing that molds.
- Moline
-
noun,
a city in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi.
- ideals
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- Molina
-
noun,
Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- molies
-
noun,
an herb given to Odysseus by Hermes to counteract the spells of Circe.
- impale
-
verb (used with object),
to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- imparl
-
verb (used without object),
to confer with the opposing party in a lawsuit with a view to settling the dispute amicably, out of court.
- Naples
-
noun,
Italian Napoli. a seaport in SW Italy.
- erodes
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- epodes
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- Napier
-
noun,
neper.
- indole
-
noun,
a colorless to yellowish solid, C 8 H 7 N, having a low melting point and a fecal odor, found in the oil of jasmine and clove and as a putrefaction product from animals' intestines: used in perfumery and as a reagent.
- Naoise
-
noun,
the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- naleds
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- inbred
-
adjective,
naturally inherent; innate; native:
- impose
-
Verb phrases,
impose on/upon,
to thrust oneself offensively upon others; intrude.
to take unfair advantage of; misuse (influence, friendship, etc.).
to defraud; cheat; deceive:
- nailer
-
noun,
a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- nadirs
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- impone
-
verb (used with object),
to wager; stake.
- impede
-
verb (used with object),
to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- morsel
-
noun,
a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- morels
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- Esmond
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Moreen
-
noun,
a heavy fabric of wool, or wool and cotton, with a ribbed face and a moiré finish, used for curtains, petticoats, etc.
- morbid
-
adjective,
suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.:
- imper.
-
- impend
-
verb (used without object),
to be imminent; be about to happen.
- impels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- M-line
-
noun,
one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- espial
-
noun,
the act of spying.
- morals
-
noun,
the moral teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc.
- Israel
-
noun,
a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- Nimrod
-
noun,
the great-grandson of Noah: noted as a great hunter. Gen. 10:8–10.
- padres
-
noun,
father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- Meliae
-
plural noun,
the nymphs born from the blood of Uranus at the time of his mutilation by Cronus; the nymphs of ash trees.
- larees
-
noun,
lari.
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- Laredo
-
noun,
a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- lardon
-
noun,
a strip of fat used in larding, especially as drawn through the substance of meat, chicken, etc., with a kind of needle or pin.
- onside
-
adjective, adverb,
not offside; being within the prescribed line or area at the beginning of or during play or a play.
- Melder
-
noun,
the quantity of meal ground at one time; the yield of meal from a crop or specific amount of grain.
- Oneida
-
noun,
a member of an Iroquois people formerly inhabiting the region east of Oneida Lake.
- lapsed
-
noun,
an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard:
- Melena
-
noun,
the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
- lapins
-
noun,
a rabbit.
- ombers
-
noun,
a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
- melan-
-
- oleins
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- edemas
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- lanose
-
adjective,
lanate.
- Lanier
-
noun,
Sidney, 1842–81, U.S. poet and literary scholar.
- meloid
-
noun,
a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.
- edible
-
noun,
Usually, edibles. edible substances; food.
- ediles
-
noun,
aedile.
- Edirne
-
noun,
a city in NW Turkey, in the European part.
- Edison
-
noun,
Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- Landis
-
noun,
Kenesaw Mountain [ken-uh-saw] /ˈkɛn əˌsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, U.S. jurist: first commissioner of baseball 1920–44.
- Landes
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 3615 sq. mi. (9365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
- Larine
-
adjective,
characteristic of or resembling a gull.
- Landor
-
noun,
Walter Savage, 1775–1864, English poet and prose writer.
- Lander
-
noun,
a space probe designed to land on a planet or other solid celestial body.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- measle
-
noun,
singular of measles (def 3).
- leaner
-
noun,
a person or thing that leans.
- drails
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- drains
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- drapes
-
noun,
a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
- leader
-
noun,
a person or thing that leads.
- Orinda
-
noun,
a town in W California.
- Dreams
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- orenda
-
noun,
a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.
- medlar
-
noun,
a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- leaden
-
adjective,
inertly heavy like lead; hard to lift or move:
- oreide
-
noun,
oroide.
- oreads
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- medial
-
noun,
Phonetics.
a medial sound or letter.
media2 (def 1).
- Median
-
noun,
Arithmetic, Statistics. the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers:
- medias
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- L-dopa
-
noun,
Pharmacology. levodopa.
- ordeal
-
noun,
any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- Medina
-
noun,
the old Arab quarter of a North African city.
- ordain
-
verb (used with object),
to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- Olbers
-
noun,
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus [hahyn-rikh vil-helm mah-te-oo s] /ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm mɑˈtɛ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1758–1840, German astronomer and physician.
- oilmen
-
noun,
a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
- Emelia
-
noun,
a female given name.
- nobles
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- ladies
-
noun,
a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken:
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- nomads
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- Elmira
-
noun,
a city in S central New York.
- Elodea
-
noun,
any of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves.
- ladens
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- merdes
-
noun,
excrement.
- Merida
-
noun,
suntan (def 2).
- embars
-
verb (used with object),
to stop or hinder, as by a bar.
- mensal
-
adjective,
monthly.
- Embden
-
noun,
one of a breed of large, white domestic geese having orange shanks, toes, and bill.
- labrid
-
noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Labridae, including the wrasses, the tautog, and the cunner, and characterized chiefly by well-developed teeth and, often, brilliant colors.
- Nobile
-
noun,
Umberto [oo m-ber-taw] /ʊmˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
- Labors
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- embeds
-
noun,
a journalist who is embedded with a military unit or a political campaign.
- embers
-
noun,
a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
- labio-
-
- Merino
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
- merles
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- Merlin
-
noun,
a small, bold falcon, Falco columbarius, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- merlon
-
noun,
(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- Ladino
-
noun,
Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- Elinor
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- oilman
-
noun,
a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
- elapse
-
noun,
the passage or termination of a period of time; lapse.
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- eiders
-
noun,
eider duck.
- oedema
-
noun,
edema.
- Odense
-
noun,
a seaport on Fyn island, in S Denmark.
- Menado
-
noun,
a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- Elaine
-
noun,
any of several women in Arthurian romance, as the daughter of King Pelles and the mother, by Lancelot, of Sir Galahad.
- lameds
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Obelia
-
noun,
a colonial hydroid of the genus Obelia, common in temperate seas and appearing as a delicate, mosslike growth on rocks, pilings, etc.
- elands
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- elapid
-
noun,
any of numerous cosmopolitan snakes of the family Elapidae, having permanently erect fangs in the front of the upper jaw and including the New World coral snakes, the cobras, and most Australian snakes.
- menads
-
noun,
maenad.
- elides
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- Mendel
-
noun,
Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- mender
-
noun,
a person or thing that mends.
- elders
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- normal
-
noun,
the average or mean:
- lairds
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- norias
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- elemis
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- Mendes
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- menial
-
noun,
a domestic servant.
- no-par
-
adjective,
without par or face value:
- nopals
-
noun,
any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- dermis
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, composed of connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, sweat glands, hair follicles, and an elaborate sensory nerve network.
- Repeal
-
noun,
the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.
- dermal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the skin.
- reside
-
noun,
a piece or section of siding:
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- rimple
-
noun,
a wrinkle.
- rimose
-
adjective,
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- bardee
-
noun,
bardy2 .
- bardes
-
noun,
bard2 (def 1).
- ribose
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble, slightly sweet solid, C 5 H 10 O 5 , a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of RNA.
- Barmen
-
noun,
a former city in W Germany, now incorporated into Wuppertal.
- riband
-
noun,
a decorative ribbon.
- Barnes
-
noun,
Albert Coombs [koomz] /kumz/ (Show IPA), 1873–1951, U.S. inventor and art collector.
- ribald
-
noun,
a ribald person.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- basion
-
noun,
the midpoint of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- resend
-
verb (used with object),
to send again.
- roband
-
noun,
a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like.
- repand
-
adjective,
Botany. having a wavy margin, as a leaf.
- bedims
-
verb (used with object),
to make dim; darken; obscure.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- beards
-
noun,
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- reopen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- beanos
-
noun,
bingo.
- beanie
-
noun,
a skullcap, often brightly colored, worn especially by children and by college freshmen, especially in the 1940s.
- repels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- Reseda
-
noun,
a grayish green.
- repine
-
verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- Beadle
-
noun,
a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
- beader
-
noun,
a tool for forming beads on lumber.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- resail
-
verb (used without object),
to sail back or again.
- resale
-
noun,
the act of selling a second time.
- roadie
-
noun,
a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians or other entertainers, whose work usually includes the setting up of equipment.
- robles
-
noun,
a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.
- bedpan
-
noun,
a shallow toilet pan for use by persons confined to bed.
- arsen-
-
- asleep
-
adverb,
in or into a state of sleep:
- saline
-
noun,
a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
- Salmon
-
noun,
a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn.
- Salome
-
noun,
Also, Salomé. the daughter of Herodias, who is said to have danced for Herod Antipas and so pleased him that he granted her mother's request for the head of John the Baptist. Matt. 14:6–11 (not mentioned by name here).
- arsino
-
adjective,
containing the arsino group.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- Sambre
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing NE through N France and S Belgium into the Meuse at Namur: battle 1918. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- sailor
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
- sample
-
noun,
a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- aroids
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- Sander
-
noun,
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
- Arnold
-
noun,
Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
- Sandie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Sandro.
- Sandor
-
noun,
a male given name.
- aslope
-
adverb,
at a slope; aslant; slantingly; diagonally.
- sailer
-
noun,
a vessel propelled by a sail or sails.
- baleen
-
noun,
whalebone (def 1).
- bailor
-
noun,
a person who delivers personal property in bailment.
- Rodman
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- Baldie
-
noun,
a bald person (sometimes used as a facetious term of address).
- Balder
-
noun,
a god, a son of Odin and Frigg and the twin brother of Hod, by whom he was killed.
- rodmen
-
noun,
a person who works with rods, as in making reinforced concrete.
- Roland
-
noun,
Italian Orlando. the greatest of the paladins in the Charlemagne cycle of the chansons de geste, renowned for his prowess and the manner of his death in the battle of Roncesvalles (a.d. 778), also for his five days' combat with Oliver in which neither was the victor.
- bairns
-
noun,
a child; son or daughter.
- bailee
-
noun,
a person to whom personal property is delivered in bailment.
- aspire
-
verb (used without object),
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive):
- Romans
-
noun,
an Epistle of the New Testament, written by Paul to the Christian community in Rome. Abbreviation: Rom.
- Ronald
-
noun,
a male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.
- badmen
-
noun,
a bandit, outlaw, desperado, etc., especially in the early history of the western U.S.
- rondel
-
noun,
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- Rosina
-
noun,
a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- Sabine
-
noun,
one of the Sabine people.
- bedlam
-
noun,
a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- bleeps
-
noun,
a brief, constant beeping sound, usually of a high pitch and generated by an electronic device.
- random
-
noun,
something that is random, or a random state or condition:
- ramson
-
noun,
a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- ramose
-
adjective,
having many branches.
- Blaine
-
noun,
James Gillespie [gi-les-pee] /gɪˈlɛs pi/ (Show IPA), 1830–93, U.S. statesman.
- blains
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- Blairs
-
noun,
Anthony Charles Lynton [lin-tuh n] /ˈlɪn tən/ (Show IPA), ("Tony") born 1953, British political leader: prime minister 1997–2007.
- Blaise
-
noun,
a male given name.
- blamed
-
noun,
an act of attributing fault; censure; reproof:
- blames
-
noun,
an act of attributing fault; censure; reproof:
- blares
-
noun,
a loud, raucous noise:
- ramble
-
noun,
a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure.
- raised
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- blears
-
noun,
a blur; cloudiness; dimness:
- bleeds
-
noun,
Printing.
a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
a part thus trimmed off.
- blende
-
noun,
sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- boards
-
noun,
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- bolden
-
noun,
Charles ("Buddy") 1868?–1931, U.S. cornet player: early pioneer in jazz.
- proems
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- boiler
-
noun,
a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which steam or other vapor is generated from water to drive turbines or engines, supply heat, process certain materials, etc.
Compare fire-tube boiler, water-tube boiler.
- boiled
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- proles
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- bodies
-
noun,
the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- rabies
-
noun,
an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- blends
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- radio-
-
- blonde
-
noun,
a woman or girl having this coloration.
- radios
-
noun,
wireless telegraphy or telephony:
- radome
-
noun,
a dome-shaped device used to house a radar antenna.
- blinds
-
noun,
something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- radons
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- birles
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- bireme
-
noun,
a galley having two banks or tiers of oars.
- remind
-
verb (used with object),
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something):
- bemoan
-
verb (used with object),
to express distress or grief over; lament:
- Berlin
-
noun,
a large, four-wheeled, closed carriage hung between two perches and having two interior seats.
- berime
-
verb (used with object),
berhyme.
- redial
-
noun,
automatic redial.
- redoes
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- Bender
-
noun,
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
- bename
-
verb (used with object),
to name; call by name.
- bemean
-
verb (used with object),
to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).
- Bernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Bernard.
- Belsen
-
noun,
locality in NW Germany: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- beldam
-
noun,
an old woman, especially an ugly one; hag.
- remand
-
noun,
the act of remanding.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- redans
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- beside
-
Idioms,
beside oneself, almost out of one's senses from a strong emotion, as from joy, delight, anger, fear, or grief:
- bipods
-
noun,
a two-legged support, as for an automatic rifle.
- rapine
-
noun,
the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
- ranids
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- bipeds
-
noun,
a two-footed animal.
- Ransom
-
noun,
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- biomes
-
noun,
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
- rapido
-
noun,
an express train.
- rapids
-
noun,
Usually, rapids. a part of a river where the current runs very swiftly.
- bindle
-
noun,
a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.
- rebops
-
noun,
bop1 .
- binder
-
noun,
a person or thing that binds.
- bimane
-
noun,
a bimanous animal.
- bields
-
noun,
a shelter; refuge.
- reason
-
noun,
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.:
- biased
-
noun,
a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned:
- rebids
-
noun,
Bridge. a second bid:
- Sandro
-
noun,
a male given name.
- sapele
-
noun,
Also called aboudikro. the mahoganylike wood of any of several African trees of the genus Entandrophragma, used for making furniture.
- bolide
-
noun,
a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- somni-
-
- aerobe
-
noun,
an organism, especially a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life (opposed to anaerobe).
- aeron.
-
- Aerope
-
noun,
the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.
- somber
-
adjective,
gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted:
- Somali
-
noun,
a member of a Hamitic population showing an admixture of Arab, black, and other ancestry, and dwelling in Somalia and adjacent regions.
- aidmen
-
noun,
a military medical corpsman trained to provide initial emergency treatment.
- Solera
-
noun,
(especially in Spain) a series of casks, graded according to age, in which sherries and brandies are stored while maturing.
- solemn
-
adjective,
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood:
- Aileen
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- solder
-
noun,
any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- Soldan
-
noun,
the ruler of an Islamic country.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Soemba
-
noun,
Dutch name of Sumba.
- soaper
-
noun,
soap opera.
- Aeolis
-
noun,
an ancient coastal region and Greek colony in NW Asia Minor: settled by Aeolians.
- Aldrin
-
noun,
a brown, water-insoluble, toxic solid consisting of more than 95 percent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon C 12 H 8 Cl 6 : used as an insecticide.
- Alison
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Alice.
- aliped
-
noun,
an aliped animal.
- alines
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- A-line
-
noun,
(especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- Sloane
-
noun,
Sir Hans, 1660–1753, English physician and naturalist.
- sloper
-
noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- aldose
-
noun,
a sugar containing the aldehyde group or its hemiacetal equivalent.
- albedo
-
noun,
Astronomy. the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- Aldine
-
noun,
an Aldine or other early edition.
- alders
-
- Alboin
-
noun,
died a.d. 573? king of the Langobards 561?–573?
- Albion
-
noun,
Alebion.
- albino
-
noun,
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
- Albers
-
noun,
Josef, 1888–1976, U.S. painter, born in Germany.
- Sondra
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Aeneid
-
noun,
a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
- slider
-
noun,
a person or thing that slides.
- spired
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spinel
-
noun,
any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- abides
-
Verb phrases,
abide by,
to act in accord with.
to submit to; agree to:
to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:
- abeles
-
noun,
the white poplar tree, Populus alba.
- spinor
-
noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spiral
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirea
-
noun,
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- spiro-
-
- spider
-
noun,
any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spleen
-
noun,
a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- splen-
-
- spline
-
noun,
a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- splore
-
noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- sprain
-
noun,
a violent straining or wrenching of the parts around a joint, without dislocation.
- spread
-
noun,
an act or instance of spreading:
- spinal
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a spinal anesthetic.
- sperm-
-
- aedile
-
noun,
one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- adobes
-
noun,
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
- adsorb
-
verb (used with object),
to gather (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) on a surface in a condensed layer:
- adreno
-
- adren-
-
- adorns
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- adores
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- Adonis
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- admire
-
Idioms,
be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:
- Spener
-
noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- ad-lib
-
noun,
something improvised in speech, music, etc.:
- sparid
-
noun,
any of numerous fishes of the family Sparidae, chiefly inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, comprising the porgies, the scups, etc.
- adeno-
-
- adeems
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- speedo
-
noun,
speedometer.
- abseil
-
noun, verb (used without object),
rappel.
- Almond
-
noun,
the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- aloins
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- Arlene
-
noun,
a female given name.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- Anselm
-
noun,
Saint, 1033–1109, archbishop of Canterbury: scholastic theologian and philosopher.
- anomie
-
noun,
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- anoles
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- aniso-
-
- sempre
-
adverb,
throughout.
- Sendai
-
noun,
a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- sendal
-
noun,
a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- seldom
-
adverb,
on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often:
- Sender
-
noun,
a person or thing that sends.
- senile
-
noun,
a senile person.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- Senora
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- anemo-
-
- aneles
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- selen-
-
- Selden
-
noun,
George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- andro-
-
- sealer
-
noun,
an officer appointed to examine and test weights and measures, and to set a stamp upon such as are true to the standard.
- sapro-
-
- Arleen
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ariose
-
adjective,
characterized by melody; songlike.
- seabed
-
noun,
seafloor.
- ariels
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- areole
-
noun,
an areola.
- ardebs
-
noun,
a unit of capacity used for dry measure in Egypt and neighboring countries, officially equivalent in Egypt to 5.62 U.S. bushels, but varying greatly in different localities.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- Searle
-
noun,
Ronald (William Fordham) [fawr-duh m,, fohr-] /ˈfɔr dəm,, ˈfoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1920–2011, British cartoonist and artist.
- Seboim
-
noun,
Zeboim.
- sedile
-
noun,
one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
- Seidel
-
noun,
a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- aplomb
-
noun,
imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
- Andros
-
noun,
Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- Andres
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Alpine
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Anthropology. a member of a Caucasoid people found in central Europe and characterized by heavy body build, medium complexion, and straight to wavy hair.
- simper
-
noun,
a silly, self-conscious smile.
- amends
-
noun,
reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- silane
-
noun,
Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- Siloam
-
noun,
a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- Silone
-
noun,
Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- Simeon
-
noun,
a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simple
-
noun,
an ignorant, foolish, or gullible person.
- amides
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- ambles
-
noun,
an ambling gait.
- Ambler
-
noun,
Eric, 1909–1998, English suspense novelist.
- ambers
-
noun,
a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator: used for making jewelry and other ornamental articles.
- Sinbad
-
noun,
Sindbad the Sailor.
- ambeer
-
noun,
tobacco juice.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- AmerSp
-
- amido-
-
- serape
-
noun,
a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- Ampere
-
noun,
the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10 −7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
- Serbia
-
noun,
a republic in S Europe since 2006; includes the autonomous province of Vojvodina and claims sovereignty over the autonomous province of Kosovo, which has declared itself independent; formerly part of Yugoslavia, in the N part: a former kingdom in S Europe. 34,116 sq. mi. (88,360 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- serbo-
-
- serdab
-
noun,
a chamber inside a mastaba containing a statue of the deceased.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- serial
-
noun,
anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- Amidol
-
noun,
a colorless, crystalline powder, C 6 H 8 N 2 O⋅2HCl, derived from phenol, used chiefly as a photographic developer.
- amoles
-
noun,
the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
- sermon
-
noun,
a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- amnios
-
- amino-
-
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- probes
-
noun,
the act of probing.
- bemire
-
verb (used with object),
to soil with mire; dirty or muddy:
- plebes
-
noun,
Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- Delano
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- Pinole
-
noun,
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
- lodens
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- broils
-
noun,
the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
- Brodie
-
noun,
a suicidal or daredevil leap; wild dive:
- Broads
-
noun,
The, (used with a plural verb) a low-lying region in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk: bogs and marshy lakes.
- pomade
-
noun,
a scented ointment, especially one used for the scalp or for dressing the hair.
- Delian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Delos.
- Persia
-
noun,
Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- Deimos
-
noun,
an ancient Greek personification of terror, a son of Ares and Aphrodite.
- person
-
noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- pesade
-
noun,
a maneuver in which the horse is made to rear, keeping its hind legs stationary and its forelegs drawn in.
- pineal
-
adjective,
resembling a pine cone in shape.
- pinder
-
noun,
peanut.
- danios
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- bromal
-
noun,
an oily, colorless liquid, CBr 3 CHO, used in medicine chiefly as an anodyne and hypnotic.
- Pesaro
-
noun,
a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- damson
-
noun,
Also called damson plum. the small, dark-blue or purple fruit of a plum, Prunus insititia, of the rose family, introduced into Europe from Asia Minor.
- damper
-
noun,
a person or thing that damps or depresses:
- Boreal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the north wind.
- demise
-
noun,
death or decease.
- damsel
-
noun,
a young woman or girl; a maiden, originally one of gentle or noble birth.
- Boreas
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of the north wind.
- polers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- demies
-
noun,
a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- Pernod
-
- boride
-
noun,
a compound consisting of two elements of which boron is the more electronegative one.
- Perlis
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- demean
-
noun,
Archaic. demeanor.
- Borman
-
noun,
Frank, born 1928, U.S. astronaut.
- bredes
-
noun,
something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
- Daniel
-
noun,
Bible.
a prophet living in Babylon during the Captivity.
the book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Dan.
- pernio
-
noun,
chilblain.
- Bosnia
-
noun,
a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary (1879–1918) now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- premed
-
noun,
a program of premedical study or training.
- Borden
-
noun,
Gail, 1801–74, U.S. inventor: developed technique for condensing milk.
- Brenda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “flame” or “sword.”.
- brands
-
noun,
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
- branle
-
noun,
a lively 16th- and 17th-century round dance originating in France.
- Pilsen
-
noun,
German name of Plzeň.
- Brasil
-
noun,
Brazil.
- debase
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce in quality or value; adulterate:
- debars
-
verb (used with object),
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition:
- Bremen
-
noun,
a state in NW Germany. 156 sq. mi. (405 sq. km).
- Preble
-
noun,
Edward, 1761–1807, U.S. naval officer.
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- dealer
-
noun,
a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:
- breads
-
noun,
a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breeds
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- breams
-
noun,
any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
- praise
-
noun,
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- deasil
-
adverb,
clockwise or in a direction following the apparent course of the sun: considered as lucky or auspicious.
- Brando
-
noun,
Marlon, 1924–2004, U.S. actor.
- pimola
-
noun,
an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- Darien
-
noun,
Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean between NE Panama and NW Colombia.
- brails
-
noun,
Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- Pindar
-
noun,
522?–443? b.c, Greek poet.
- ponder
-
verb (used with object),
to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully:
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- brines
-
noun,
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- braids
-
noun,
a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
- darnel
-
noun,
any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, having simple stems, flat leaves, and terminal spikes.
- pinard
-
noun,
wine.
- brains
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- debone
-
verb (used with object),
to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone:
- pibals
-
noun,
the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds by theodolitic tracking of a pilot balloon.
- bridle
-
noun,
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- debris
-
noun,
the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble:
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- braise
-
verb (used with object),
to cook (meat, fish, or vegetables) by sautéeing in fat and then simmering slowly in very little liquid.
- bridal
-
noun,
a wedding.
- Briand
-
noun,
Aristide [ar-uh-steed;; French a-ree-steed] /ˈær əˌstid;; French a riˈstid/ (Show IPA), 1862–1932, French statesman: minister of France 11 times; Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- prides
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- Presb.
-
- Denise
-
noun,
a female given name: derived from Denis.
- plani-
-
- Derain
-
noun,
André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1954, French painter.
- primes
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- denom.
-
- denier
-
noun,
a person who denies.
- pro-am
-
noun,
any sporting event in which professionals play with amateurs.
- primos
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- bonsai
-
noun,
a tree or shrub that has been dwarfed, as by pruning the roots and pinching, and is grown in a pot or other container and trained to produce a desired shape or effect.
- denies
-
Idioms,
deny oneself, to refrain from satisfying one's desires or needs; practice self-denial.
- derail
-
noun,
a track device for derailing rolling stock in an emergency.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- pensil
-
noun,
pencel.
- planer
-
noun,
Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
- plano-
-
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- plasm-
-
- daemon
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
a god.
a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
- depose
-
verb (used with object),
to remove from office or position, especially high office:
- boners
-
noun,
a person or thing that bones.
- Dairen
-
noun,
former Japanese name of Dalian (def 2).
- dampen
-
verb (used with object),
to make damp; moisten:
- perdie
-
adverb, interjection,
pardi.
- denims
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- depone
-
verb (used with or without object),
to testify under oath; depose.
- daimen
-
adjective,
rare; occasional.
- daimon
-
noun,
daemon.
- Peoria
-
noun,
a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.
- deperm
-
verb (used with object),
to reduce the permanent magnetism of (a vessel) by wrapping an electric cable around it vertically athwartships and energizing the cable.
- poised
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- denial
-
noun,
an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false:
- Poland
-
noun,
a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. About 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Capital: Warsaw.
- period
-
noun,
a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics:
- bordel
-
noun,
a brothel.
- polder
-
noun,
a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- Pleiad
-
noun,
any of the Pleiades.
- Pisano
-
noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- borane
-
noun,
any of the compounds, both neutral and anionic, of boron and hydrogen with formulas ranging from B 2 H 6 to B 20 H 16 .
- pleio-
-
- Plains
-
noun,
an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.
- primal
-
adjective,
first; original; primeval:
- demobs
-
noun,
demobilization.
- please
-
Idioms,
if you please,
if it be your pleasure; if you like or prefer.
(used as an exclamation expressing astonishment, indignation, etc.):
- borals
-
noun,
a compound of an aluminum tartrate and borate, used chiefly as an astringent and antiseptic.
- Damien
-
noun,
Father (Jo·seph de Veu·ster) [French zhaw-zef--duh-vœ-ster] /French ʒɔˈzɛf də vœˈstɛr/ (Show IPA), 1840–89, Belgian Roman Catholic missionary to the lepers of Molokai.
- pleads
-
verb (used with object),
to allege or urge in defense, justification, or excuse:
- Palos
-
noun,
a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- sebi-
-
- palms
-
noun,
the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- sarod
-
noun,
a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- medal
-
noun,
a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like:
- Sedan
-
noun,
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
- Merle
-
noun,
the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- parle
-
noun, verb (used without object),
talk; parley.
- plebe
-
noun,
Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- Sidon
-
noun,
a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- sidle
-
noun,
a sidling movement.
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Media
-
noun,
a plural of medium.
- Medan
-
noun,
a city in NE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- sinal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
- Sidra
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Mediterranean, on the N coast of Libya.
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- Pimas
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- Medea
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children.
- Simon
-
noun,
the original name of the apostle Peter.
Compare Peter.
- pilon
-
noun,
something extra; lagniappe.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- Pamir
-
noun,
the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- Piman
-
noun,
any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- plead
-
verb (used with object),
to allege or urge in defense, justification, or excuse:
- parol
-
noun,
something stated or declared.
- paned
-
adjective,
having panes (usually used in combination):
- pares
-
noun,
(of a female) first among equals.
- Parl.
-
- Mende
-
noun,
a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- Selma
-
noun,
a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- seral
-
adjective,
of or relating to a sere.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- semi-
-
- pardi
-
adverb, interjection,
verily; indeed.
- plan-
-
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- sepia
-
noun,
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- Paoli
-
noun,
Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- plain
-
noun,
an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.
- melon
-
noun,
the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- sepal
-
noun,
one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- plaid
-
noun,
any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- Melos
-
noun,
the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
- menad
-
noun,
maenad.
- panel
-
noun,
a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- mends
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- Seder
-
noun,
a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- Paris
-
noun,
Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- Medon
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.
- meeds
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- pari-
-
- pinas
-
noun,
pineapple.
- sero-
-
- merde
-
noun,
excrement.
- Melas
-
noun,
a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- Melba
-
noun,
(Dame) Nellie (Helen Porter Mitchell Armstrong) 1861–1931, Australian operatic soprano.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- paren
-
plural noun,
parentheses:
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- pards
-
noun,
a leopard or panther.
- meno-
-
- melds
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- Pinel
-
noun,
Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- plane
-
noun,
a flat or level surface.
- Melia
-
- piled
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- oared
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- Pilea
-
noun,
any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Pilea, of the nettle family, many species of which are cultivated for their ornamental foliage.
- mails
-
noun,
letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system:
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- peri-
-
- speed
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- peril
-
noun,
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger:
- Spear
-
noun,
a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- maids
-
noun,
a female servant.
- maile
-
noun,
a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.
- spean
-
verb (used with object),
to wean.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- spare
-
noun,
a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- span-
-
- Spain
-
noun,
a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- spado
-
noun,
Civil Law. an impotent person; someone unable to procreate.
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- spade
-
noun,
a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- Perle
-
noun,
a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- Pedro
-
noun,
any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- male-
-
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- pedo-
-
- Sonia
-
noun,
a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- Mande
-
noun,
a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.
- perms
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- spend
-
verb (used with object),
to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
- SONAR
-
noun,
a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- Lords
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- 2,4-d
-
noun,
a white to yellow, crystalline powder, C 8 H 6 O 3 Cl 2 , slightly soluble in water: used for killing weeds.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- pene-
-
- loner
-
noun,
a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:
- penal
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spor-
-
- Spode
-
noun,
Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- loper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- splad
-
noun,
splat1 (def 1).
- LORAN
-
noun,
a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- Loren
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- madre
-
noun,
mother1 .
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Lorin
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- Pemba
-
noun,
an island near the E coast of equatorial Africa: formerly part of Zanzibar protectorate; now a part of Tanzania. 164,321; 380 sq. mi. (984 sq. km).
- Lorna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Lorne
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- Mabel
-
noun,
a female given name.
- spina
-
noun,
a spine or spinelike projection.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- sonde
-
noun,
a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- Sino-
-
- Paros
-
noun,
a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- pibal
-
noun,
the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds by theodolitic tracking of a pilot balloon.
- smile
-
noun,
the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- Smail
-
noun,
snail mail.
- sloid
-
noun,
sloyd.
- Peale
-
noun,
Charles Willson [wil-suh n] /ˈwɪl sən/ (Show IPA), 1741–1827, and his brother James, 1749–1831, U.S. painters.
- paseo
-
noun,
a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- piend
-
noun,
arris.
- Sloan
-
noun,
John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- mero-
-
- marls
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slime
-
noun,
thin, glutinous mud.
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- pians
-
noun,
yaws.
- Maros
-
noun,
Hungarian name of Mures.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- slain
-
noun,
sley.
- Mason
-
noun,
a person whose trade is building with units of various natural or artificial mineral products, as stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement as a bonding agent.
- Pilar
-
adjective,
of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- mbira
-
noun,
a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- Meade
-
noun,
George Gordon, 1815–72, Union general in the American Civil War.
- Meads
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- piano
-
noun,
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- PEDir
-
- Pease
-
noun,
a pea.
- pedi-
-
- solid
-
noun,
a body or object having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness).
- manor
-
noun,
(in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- manos
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- pedal
-
noun,
a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Maori
-
noun,
a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- maple
-
noun,
any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap.
Compare maple family.
- solar
-
noun,
Informal. solar energy.
- solan
-
noun,
a gannet.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- sober
-
adjective,
not intoxicated or drunk.
- Soane
-
noun,
Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- Mario
-
noun,
a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snide
-
adjective,
derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner:
- Pears
-
noun,
Peter, 1910–86, British tenor.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- Pearl
-
noun,
a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored.
Compare cultured pearl.
- snead
-
noun,
Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- peans
-
noun,
paean.
- Peano
-
noun,
Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, Italian mathematician.
- snarl
-
noun,
the act of snarling.
- peals
-
noun,
a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- snail
-
noun,
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- parse
-
verb (used with object),
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- Sambo
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a black person, especially a male.
- plebs
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) the common people, as contrasted with the patricians and later with the senatorial nobility or the equestrian order.
- presa
-
noun,
a mark, as :S:, +, or §, used in a canon, round, etc., to indicate where the successive voice parts are to take up the theme.
- Ndola
-
noun,
a city in N Zambia.
- realm
-
noun,
a royal domain; kingdom:
- neaps
-
noun,
neap tide.
- Pres.
-
- nears
-
- reads
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- Nebr.
-
- Reade
-
noun,
Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.
- omber
-
noun,
a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
- Omani
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Oman.
- needs
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- rason
-
noun,
a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- Neils
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- nerds
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- ranid
-
noun,
frog1 (def 2).
- neral
-
noun,
citral b.
See under citral.
- Pride
-
noun,
a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Priam
-
noun,
a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- Nelda
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Nepal
-
noun,
a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- rapes
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- olein
-
noun,
Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- rapid
-
noun,
Usually, rapids. a part of a river where the current runs very swiftly.
- nemos
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- naso-
-
- nards
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Moser
-
noun,
Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- redia
-
noun,
a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- nadir
-
noun,
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
- Nader
-
noun,
Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- Nabis
-
- nabes
-
noun,
a neighborhood movie theater.
- MPers
-
- Morse
-
noun,
an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.
- redes
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- morns
-
noun,
morning.
- mores
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- Redon
-
noun,
Odilon [ohd-l-on;; French aw-dee-lawn] /ˈoʊd lˌɒn;; French ɔ diˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1840–1916, French painter and etcher.
- redos
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- Morel
-
noun,
any edible mushroom of the genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- nails
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- reals
-
noun,
real number.
- napes
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- omers
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- reaps
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- omni-
-
- Rebel
-
noun,
a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- rebid
-
noun,
Bridge. a second bid:
- rebop
-
noun,
bop1 .
- naled
-
noun,
a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- prem.
-
- Naomi
-
noun,
the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- onlap
-
noun,
the advance of a sea beyond its former shore.
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Redan
-
noun,
a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Olean
-
noun,
a city in SW New York.
- oldie
-
noun,
a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proms
-
noun,
a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.
- nomad
-
noun,
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- pron.
-
- Nolde
-
noun,
Emil (Emil Hansen) 1867–1956, German painter.
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- pros.
-
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- Prome
-
noun,
a city in central Burma, on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.
- psalm
-
noun,
a sacred song or hymn.
- psora
-
noun,
psoriasis.
- noils
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- Noemi
-
noun,
Naomi (def 1).
- noels
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- nodal
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nomas
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- PRISM
-
noun,
Optics. a transparent solid body, often having triangular bases, used for dispersing light into a spectrum or for reflecting rays of light.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- noria
-
noun,
a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- probe
-
noun,
the act of probing.
- Obad.
-
- prob.
-
- Norma
-
noun,
the Rule, a small southern constellation between Lupus and Ara.
- prod.
-
- prods
-
noun,
the act of prodding; a poke or jab.
- proem
-
noun,
an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prom.
-
- NORAD
-
noun,
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force command responsible for detecting aircraft and space vehicles deemed a threat to the continental airspace.
- proas
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Prole
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- nopal
-
noun,
any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- nomes
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- Obeid
-
noun,
El Obeid.
- rabid
-
adjective,
irrationally extreme in opinion or practice:
- Noble
-
noun,
a person of noble birth or rank; nobleman or noblewoman. Synonyms: peer; aristocrat, blue blood, patrician.
Antonyms: commoner, serf, peasant.
- rands
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Niles
-
noun,
a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- nides
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- rales
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- nerol
-
noun,
a colorless, liquid, unsaturated alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, an isomeric form of geraniol occurring in neroli oil, used in perfumery.
- Rambo
-
noun,
a fanatically militant or violently aggressive person.
- prim.
-
- oiled
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- Oland
-
noun,
an island in SE Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound. 26,750; 519 sq. mi. (1345 sq. km).
- Ramon
-
noun,
any of several tropical American trees belonging to the genus Brosimum, of the mulberry family, the leaves of which are used as forage, especially B. alicastrum, which bears the breadnut.
- olden
-
adjective,
of or relating to the distant past or bygone times; ancient.
- Ramos
-
noun,
Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- Older
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Rabin
-
noun,
Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- radon
-
noun,
a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- prims
-
noun,
privet.
- obese
-
adjective,
very fat or overweight; corpulent.
- Nobel
-
noun,
Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- Radom
-
noun,
a city in E Poland.
- nipas
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Primo
-
noun,
the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- oidea
-
- raids
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Niobe
-
noun,
the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
- prime
-
noun,
the most flourishing stage or state.
- rails
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- Morea
-
noun,
Peloponnesus.
- Meroe
-
noun,
a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Minos
-
noun,
a king of Crete: he ordered Daedalus to build the Labyrinth.
- Poler
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- Minor
-
noun,
a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Sabir
-
noun,
lingua franca (def 2).
- Sable
-
noun,
an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- SABRE
-
noun,
a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- Saber
-
noun,
a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- minds
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- Sadie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Sara or Sarah.
- Paine
-
noun,
Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- polar
-
adjective,
of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- Salem
-
noun,
a seaport in NE Massachusetts: founded 1626; execution of persons accused of being witches 1692; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Sabin
-
noun,
Physics. a unit of sound absorption, equal to one square foot (929 square centimeters) of a perfectly absorptive surface.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Milos
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- romps
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Pablo
-
noun,
a male given name, Spanish form of Paul.
- miso-
-
- padre
-
noun,
father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- Roman
-
noun,
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- ronde
-
noun,
a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- Paeon
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- misdo
-
verb (used with object),
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- milpa
-
noun,
(in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
- salep
-
noun,
a starchy, demulcent drug or foodstuff consisting of the dried tubers of certain orchids.
- Rodin
-
noun,
(François) Auguste (René) [frahn-swa oh-gyst ruh-ney] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
- plier
-
noun,
pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- Sampo
-
noun,
a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- meros
-
noun,
(in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- Sande
-
noun,
Earl, 1898–1968, U.S. jockey and racehorse trainer.
- plods
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- plio-
-
- Pales
-
noun,
a stake or picket, as of a fence.
- pleon
-
noun,
the abdomen of a crustacean.
- plomb
-
noun,
any inert material inserted into a body cavity for therapeutic purposes.
- pleo-
-
- Saone
-
noun,
a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sapid
-
adjective,
having taste or flavor.
- Sapir
-
noun,
Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- sapor
-
noun,
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- palis
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a steep slope or cliff.
- ploid
-
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- Milne
-
noun,
A(lan) A(lexander) 1882–1956, English novelist, playwright, and author of prose and verse for children.
- Milan
-
noun,
an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- salmi
-
noun,
a ragout of partially cooked game, as pheasant or woodcock, stewed in wine and butter.
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- miler
-
noun,
a participant in a one-mile race.
- pains
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- salon
-
noun,
a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- Salop
-
noun,
a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- meso-
-
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- podia
-
noun,
a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- MIDAS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- meson
-
noun,
Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- pairs
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- pale-
-
- pomes
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- Osman
-
noun,
1259–1326, Turkish emir 1299–1326: founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- repel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- rends
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- monas
-
noun,
monad.
- reni-
-
- orans
-
noun,
orant.
- monad
-
noun,
Biology.
any simple, single-celled organism.
any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- prams
-
noun,
perambulator.
- moles
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- orals
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- molds
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- prae-
-
- molas
-
noun,
any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- molar
-
noun,
Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- ordn.
-
- monde
-
noun,
the world; people; society.
- renal
-
adjective,
of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- Moira
-
noun,
Classical Mythology.
the personification of fate.
Moirai, the Fates.
- mopes
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- moras
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- pred.
-
- pends
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- opera
-
noun,
an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.
Compare comic opera, grand opera.
- moral
-
noun,
the moral teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc.
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- OPers
-
- prand
-
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- moped
-
noun,
a motorized bicycle that has pedals in addition to a low-powered gasoline engine designed for low-speed operation.
- prase
-
noun,
a leek-green cryptocrystalline variety of chalcedony.
- praos
-
noun,
proa.
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- orale
-
noun,
fanon (def 2).
- moire
-
noun,
any moiré fabric.
- moils
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- ponds
-
noun,
a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- roams
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- roans
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- robes
-
noun,
a long, loose or flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office.
- Robin
-
noun,
any of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, especially Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
- roble
-
noun,
a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- rides
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- oread
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.
- moble
-
verb (used with object),
to wrap the head of, as in a hood.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- modes
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- model
-
noun,
a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- modal
-
noun,
modal auxiliary.
- orial
-
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- resp.
-
- rials
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- moans
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- lodes
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- loden
-
noun,
a thick, heavily fulled, waterproof fabric, used in coats and jackets for cold climates.
- Alsip
-
noun,
a town in NE Illinois.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- ASPEN
-
noun,
any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- Dalen
-
noun,
Gustaf [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, Swedish inventor: Nobel Prize in Physics 1912.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- dames
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- damns
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- Alope
-
noun,
a daughter of Cercyon who was raped by Poseidon and bore a son, Hippothous.
- Erbil
-
noun,
a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Damon
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Epsom
-
noun,
a town in Surrey, SE England, S of London: site of a famous racetrack (Epsom Downs) where the annual Derby is held.
- EPROM
-
noun,
a memory chip whose contents can be erased by a mechanism using ultraviolet light and reprogrammed for other purposes.
- epode
-
noun,
Classical Prosody. a kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a long verse is followed by a short one.
- asper
-
noun,
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.
- alone
-
Idioms,
leave alone,
to allow (someone) to be by himself or herself:
to refrain from annoying or interfering with:
- damps
-
noun,
moisture; humidity; moist air:
- bros.
-
noun,
a brother.
- brios
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- Alene
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- brise
-
noun,
a ballet movement in which the dancer jumps off one foot, beats the legs together, and lands on both feet.
- Broad
-
noun,
the broad part of anything.
- broil
-
noun,
the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
- brom-
-
- Brose
-
noun,
a porridge made by stirring boiling liquid into oatmeal or other meal.
- Aloin
-
noun,
an intensely bitter, crystalline, water-soluble powder composed of the active principles of and obtained from aloe, used chiefly as a purgative.
- alien
-
noun,
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).
See also resident alien, illegal alien.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Aline
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Adeline.
- BSElE
-
- erode
-
verb (used with object),
to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
- almes
-
noun,
almah.
- Almon
-
noun,
a Philippine, dipterocarpaceous tree, Shorea eximia.
- Epis.
-
- Alsop
-
noun,
Joseph W(right) 1910–1989, U.S. political journalist and writer.
- brims
-
noun,
the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink:
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- ambos
-
noun,
(in an early Christian church) a raised desk, or either of two such desks, from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted.
- endo-
-
- Ender
-
noun,
Kornelia [kawr-neyl-yuh,, -ney-lee-uh] /kɔrˈneɪl yə,, -ˈneɪ li ə/ (Show IPA), born 1958, German swimmer.
- dears
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- AMEDS
-
- debar
-
verb (used with object),
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition:
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- deals
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- Debir
-
noun,
a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- Debra
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Deborah.
- arson
-
noun,
Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.
- Emile
-
noun,
a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.
- Deems
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- Amend
-
verb (used with object),
to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- Asben
-
noun,
Aïr.
- danes
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- Amble
-
noun,
an ambling gait.
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- danio
-
noun,
any of several cyprinid fishes of the genera Danio and Brachydanio, of India and Sri Lanka, often kept in aquariums.
- Amber
-
noun,
a pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator: used for making jewelry and other ornamental articles.
- ambi-
-
- Dares
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Dario
-
noun,
Rubén [roo-ven] /ruˈvɛn/ (Show IPA), (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet and diplomat.
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- Enola
-
noun,
a female given name.
- darns
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- Ambon
-
noun,
ambo.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- aside
-
noun,
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
- enrol
-
verb (used with or without object),
enroll.
- enorm
-
adjective,
enormous; huge; vast.
- enols
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Brine
-
noun,
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- iambs
-
noun,
a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- in-lb
-
- insp.
-
- insol
-
- Boles
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- insep
-
- bonds
-
noun,
something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- boned
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- boner
-
noun,
a person or thing that bones.
- bolar
-
adjective,
of or relating to bole or clay.
- bones
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- Indre
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2667 sq. mi. (6910 sq. km). Capital: Châteauroux.
- Indra
-
noun,
Hinduism. the chief of the Vedic gods, the god of rain and thunder.
- Indo-
-
- Bonpa
-
noun,
a member of the Bön sect.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- bolas
-
noun,
bola (def 1).
- Aidos
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame.
- boral
-
noun,
a compound of an aluminum tartrate and borate, used chiefly as an astringent and antiseptic.
- Iran.
-
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- bairn
-
noun,
a child; son or daughter.
- bails
-
noun,
property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- aero-
-
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- board
-
noun,
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- irade
-
noun,
a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- Boise
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Idaho, in the SW part: built on the site of an army post on the Oregon Trail.
- boars
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- bodes
-
verb,
a simple past tense of bide.
- boers
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- Aesop
-
noun,
c620–c560 b.c, Greek writer of fables.
- boils
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- Aides
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- impel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- boras
-
noun,
a city in S Sweden, near Göteborg.
- Bride
-
noun,
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
- brede
-
noun,
something braided or entwined, especially a plait of hair; braid.
- idler
-
noun,
a person who passes time in a lazy or unproductive way.
- bread
-
noun,
a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- ideo-
-
- Bream
-
noun,
any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
- ideal
-
noun,
a conception of something in its perfection.
- Breda
-
noun,
a city in the S Netherlands.
- Breed
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- Brans
-
noun,
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
- Breen
-
noun,
a deep brownish green.
- Albee
-
noun,
Edward, born 1928, U.S. playwright.
- Ibsen
-
noun,
Henrik [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1828–1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
- dorms
-
noun,
dormitory.
- Brian
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Alden
-
noun,
John, 1599?–1687, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
- idles
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- Brand
-
noun,
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
- Borel
-
noun,
Félix Édouard Émile [fey-leeks ey-dwar ey-meel] /feɪˈliks eɪˈdwar eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1871–1956, French mathematician.
- Baden
-
noun,
a region in SW Germany, formerly a state, now incorporated in Baden-Württemberg.
- Bores
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- Boris
-
noun,
a male given name.
- borne
-
noun,
a circular sofa having a conical or cylindrical back piece at the center.
- impar
-
adjective,
unpaired; azygous.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- imbed
-
verb (used with object),
embed.
- brads
-
noun,
a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- ileo-
-
- braid
-
noun,
a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
- brail
-
noun,
Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brain
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- aisle
-
noun,
a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- Brale
-
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- emend
-
verb (used with object),
to edit or change (a text).
- Emden
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Germany.
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- eared
-
noun,
the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- Armen
-
- armed
-
noun,
Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Arles
-
noun,
a city in SE France, on the Rhone River: Roman ruins.
- Arlen
-
noun,
Harold (Hymen Arluck) 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
- Dnepr
-
noun,
Russian name of Dnieper.
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- disme
-
noun,
a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- Dobie
-
noun,
Chiefly Southwestern U.S. adobe.
- dobla
-
noun,
a former gold coin of Spain.
- dobra
-
noun,
any of various former Portuguese coins, especially a gold coin of John V equal to two johannes.
- apres
-
preposition,
after; following (used in combination):
- doers
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- April
-
noun,
the fourth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Apr.
- easel
-
noun,
a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- dirls
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- doles
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- Dione
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- Edina
-
noun,
a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edile
-
noun,
aedile.
- dines
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- edema
-
noun,
effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- diols
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- anode
-
noun,
the electrode or terminal by which current enters an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.
- Dirae
-
plural noun,
the Furies. See fury (def 3).
- anole
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly insectivorous New World lizards of the genus Anolis, related to the iguana, that have the ability to change the color of their skin among a wide range of green and brown shades.
- dipl.
-
- Aoede
-
noun,
one of the original three Muses; the Muse of song.
- A-one
-
adjective,
noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
- aroid
-
noun,
any plant of the arum family.
- dipso
-
noun,
a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- Arnel
-
- apron
-
noun,
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:
- dolia
-
noun,
a large earthenware jar used by the ancient Romans.
- Edman
-
noun,
Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- dopes
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- ardeb
-
noun,
a unit of capacity used for dry measure in Egypt and neighboring countries, officially equivalent in Egypt to 5.62 U.S. bushels, but varying greatly in different localities.
- drabs
-
noun,
dull gray; dull brownish or yellowish gray.
- Arden
-
noun,
Forest of, a forest district in central England, in N Warwickshire: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- dopas
-
noun,
an amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , formed from tyrosine in the liver during melanin and epinephrine biosynthesis: the L-dopa isomer is converted in the brain to dopamine.
- areo-
-
- doper
-
noun,
a drug addict.
- Ariel
-
noun,
a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica : almost extinct.
- Drain
-
noun,
something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- arils
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- dorab
-
noun,
wolf herring.
- DORAN
-
noun,
an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- Doris
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- dorse
-
noun,
the back of a book or folded document.
- drail
-
noun,
a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- donee
-
noun,
a person to whom a gift is made.
- Dolin
-
noun,
Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- domes
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- dolma
-
noun,
a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.
- Arbil
-
noun,
Erbil.
- domal
-
noun,
Phonetics. a domal sound.
- drone
-
noun,
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
- drome
-
noun,
a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- Drina
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- dries
-
noun,
a plural of dry.
- drams
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dribs
-
noun,
a small or minute quantity; bit.
- Arion
-
noun,
flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- drees
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Dream
-
noun,
a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- Donar
-
noun,
the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- donas
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- Drape
-
noun,
a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.
- diner
-
noun,
a person who dines.
- anis-
-
- Amer.
-
- elide
-
verb (used with object),
to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- Delos
-
noun,
a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: site of an oracle of Apollo.
- Elmer
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”.
- Elman
-
noun,
Mischa [mee-shuh] /ˈmi ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1891–1967, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Elisa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- demes
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- demi-
-
- delis
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- Elias
-
noun,
Douay Bible. Elijah (def 1).
- demo-
-
- demob
-
noun,
demobilization.
- Demon
-
noun,
an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
- Demos
-
noun,
the common people of an ancient Greek state.
- Elena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Helen.
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- elemi
-
noun,
any of various fragrant resins from certain trees, especially Canarium commune, used chiefly in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, ointments, and in perfumery.
- ember
-
noun,
a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
- deeps
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- Embla
-
noun,
the first woman, made by the gods from a tree.
- deers
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- amid-
-
- amide
-
noun,
a metallic derivative of ammonia in which the −NH 2 group is retained, as potassium amide, KNH 2 .
- amin-
-
- embed
-
noun,
a journalist who is embedded with a military unit or a political campaign.
- Delia
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Cordelia.
- embar
-
verb (used with object),
to stop or hinder, as by a bar.
- EMAIL
-
noun,
a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals using dedicated software:
- deils
-
noun,
devil.
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- deism
-
noun,
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- deles
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- denar
-
noun,
the basic monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- elem.
-
- dinar
-
noun,
any of various former coins of the Near East, especially gold coins issued by Islamic governments.
- diene
-
noun,
any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- Andre
-
noun,
John, 1751–80, British major hanged as a spy by the Americans in the Revolutionary War: plotted the betrayal of West Point with Benedict Arnold.
- Diels
-
noun,
Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- arose
-
verb,
simple past tense of arise.
- eidos
-
noun,
the formal content of a culture, encompassing its system of ideas, criteria for interpreting experience, etc.
- eider
-
noun,
eider duck.
- anele
-
verb (used with object),
to administer extreme unction to.
- anile
-
adjective,
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
- diam.
-
- Edsel
-
noun,
a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- anils
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- dimer
-
noun,
a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- anim.
-
- Ednas
-
noun,
Adnah.
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- andr-
-
- dials
-
noun,
a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
- Deneb
-
noun,
a first-magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus.
- ample
-
adjective,
fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough:
- denes
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Elder
-
noun,
a person who is older or higher in rank than oneself.
- denim
-
noun,
a heavy, Z-twist, twill cotton for jeans, overalls, and other work and leisure garments.
- Denis
-
noun,
a male given name.
- dense
-
adjective,
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact:
- amole
-
noun,
the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
- derm-
-
- dial.
-
- derma
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology. dermis.
- derms
-
noun,
a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- andor
-
conjunction,
(used to imply that either or both of the things mentioned may be affected or involved):
- Andes
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- Andie
-
noun,
a male or female given name.
- elans
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Eland
-
noun,
either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare.
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- dorps
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- birle
-
verb (used with object),
to pour (a drink) or pour a drink for.
- lapse
-
noun,
an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard:
- limas
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter L.
- Leeds
-
noun,
a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- biers
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- admen
-
noun,
Also called advertising man. one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements.
- abdom
-
- lapin
-
noun,
a rabbit.
- lapis
-
noun,
(italics) Latin. stone (used in Latin names for minerals, gems, etc.)
- Abdon
-
noun,
one of the minor judges of Israel. Judges 12:13–15.
- Biles
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- abris
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- Beals
-
noun,
a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- bison
-
noun,
Also called American bison, American buffalo. a North American, oxlike ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders: formerly common in North America, its small remaining population in isolated western areas of the U.S. and Canada is now protected.
- birse
-
noun,
a short hair of the beard or body; a bristle.
- bands
-
noun,
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
- beams
-
noun,
any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- lards
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- laree
-
noun,
lari.
- Lares
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- birne
-
noun,
boule1 (def 1).
- admin
-
noun,
administration; administrative work.
- beads
-
noun,
a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- belie
-
verb (used with object),
to show to be false; contradict:
- lames
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- Lemon
-
noun,
the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- Laird
-
noun,
a landed proprietor.
- Leman
-
noun,
a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- Blase
-
adjective,
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
- blare
-
noun,
a loud, raucous noise:
- Bland
-
noun,
James A(llen) 1854–1911, U.S. songwriter and minstrel performer.
- lamed
-
noun,
the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- limos
-
noun,
a limousine.
- blame
-
noun,
an act of attributing fault; censure; reproof:
- blade
-
noun,
the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc.
- abrin
-
noun,
a highly poisonous protein found in the seeds of the rosary pea: inhibits protein synthesis, causing symptoms such as internal bleeding, intestinal upset, and irritation of mucous membranes.
- Blair
-
noun,
Anthony Charles Lynton [lin-tuh n] /ˈlɪn tən/ (Show IPA), ("Tony") born 1953, British political leader: prime minister 1997–2007.
- bemas
-
noun,
Eastern Church. the enclosed space surrounding the altar; the sanctuary or chancel.
- Blain
-
noun,
an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- Lando
-
noun,
died a.d. 914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 913–914.
- banes
-
noun,
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
- lands
-
noun,
any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- Liman
-
noun,
a muddy lagoon, marsh, or lake near the mouth of a river behind part of the delta and more or less protected from open water by a barrier or spit.
- Laris
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- binal
-
adjective,
double; twofold.
- Lipan
-
noun,
a member of a group of Apache Indians who lived in the U.S. east of the Rio Grande.
- beeps
-
noun,
a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn, electronic device, or the like as a signal, summons, or warning.
- Limon
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1908–72, Mexican dancer and choreographer in the U.S.
- binds
-
noun,
the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- Linda
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “pretty.”.
- aden-
-
- Adele
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- bedim
-
verb (used with object),
to make dim; darken; obscure.
- beedi
-
noun,
bidi.
- lears
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- learn
-
verb (used with object),
to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience:
- liner
-
noun,
a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
- biome
-
noun,
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
- Beira
-
noun,
a seaport in central Mozambique.
- leads
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- biol.
-
- Beers
-
noun,
Clifford Whittingham [hwit-ing-uh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt ɪŋ əm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1876–1943, U.S. pioneer in mental hygiene.
- leans
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- bines
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- leaps
-
noun,
a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.
- limps
-
noun,
a lame movement or gait:
- adios
-
interjection,
goodbye; farewell.
- lease
-
noun,
a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- birls
-
noun,
British Informal. an attempt; a gamble.
- limbs
-
noun,
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
- abele
-
noun,
the white poplar tree, Populus alba.
- abide
-
Verb phrases,
abide by,
to act in accord with.
to submit to; agree to:
to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:
- limba
-
noun,
an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- Berea
-
noun,
a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- limbo
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- Adler
-
noun,
Alfred, 1870–1937, Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist.
- beano
-
noun,
bingo.
- beans
-
noun,
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- bipod
-
noun,
a two-legged support, as for an automatic rifle.
- Belem
-
noun,
a seaport in N Brazil on the Pará River.
- Linos
-
noun,
linoleum.
- adeem
-
verb (used with object),
to revoke (a legacy) by ademption.
- Beard
-
noun,
the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- limen
-
noun,
threshold (def 4).
- biped
-
noun,
a two-footed animal.
- LASER
-
noun,
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- ables
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- limns
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- lebes
-
noun,
a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- bears
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- blear
-
noun,
a blur; cloudiness; dimness:
- bield
-
noun,
a shelter; refuge.
- bleed
-
noun,
Printing.
a sheet or page margin trimmed so as to mutilate the text or illustration.
a part thus trimmed off.
- loans
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- bales
-
noun,
a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage, or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords, or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering:
- Leone
-
noun,
a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Sierra Leone, equal to 100 cents.
- lobar
-
adjective,
of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- blond
-
noun,
a blond person.
- Islam
-
noun,
the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
- Leona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- barms
-
noun,
yeast formed on malt liquors while fermenting.
- Blois
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Loire-et-Cher, in central France, on the Loire River: historic castle.
- isnad
-
noun,
the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- Benes
-
noun,
Eduard [e-doo-ahrt] /ˈɛ dʊˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1884–1948, Czech patriot and statesman: president of Czechoslovakia 1935–38 and 1945–48.
- Berns
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
- loams
-
noun,
a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- baro-
-
- Aedon
-
noun,
a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- loads
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- besom
-
noun,
a broom, especially one of brush or twigs.
- blind
-
noun,
something that obstructs vision, as a blinker for a horse.
- Aedes
-
noun,
yellow-fever mosquito.
- Blimp
-
noun,
a small, nonrigid airship or dirigible, especially one used chiefly for observation.
- BMarE
-
- Leoni
-
noun,
Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- lenos
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- berms
-
noun,
Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- Abner
-
noun,
the commander of the Israelite army and a cousin of Saul. I Sam. 14:50; 26:5.
- aeri-
-
- Liard
-
noun,
a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- Benis
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- Barde
-
noun,
bard2 (def 1).
- Beria
-
noun,
Lavrenti Pavlovich [luh v-ren-tee pav-loh-vich;; Russian luh-vryen-tyee puh-vlaw-vyich] /ləvˈrɛn ti pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian lʌˈvryɛn tyi pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1953, Soviet secret-police chief: executed for treason.
- abode
-
noun,
a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
- Bardo
-
noun,
(in Lamaism) the state of the soul between death and rebirth.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- Lerna
-
noun,
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- Libra
-
noun,
the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- aboil
-
adverb, adjective,
boiling:
- aeons
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- balds
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name.
- bares
-
verb,
simple past tense of bear1 .
- leper
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- Liber
-
noun,
phloem.
- baris
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- Berne
-
noun,
Bern.
- lobed
-
adjective,
having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
- LIDAR
-
noun,
a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- Baron
-
noun,
a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- Basle
-
noun,
Basel.
- lades
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- Adore
-
verb (used with object),
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- bends
-
noun,
the act of bending.
- Basil
-
noun,
any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- basin
-
noun,
a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, especially for washing.
- Blida
-
noun,
a city in N Algeria.
- Laden
-
adjective,
burdened; loaded down.
- lipo-
-
- Basie
-
noun,
William ("Count") 1904–84, U.S. jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer.
- lends
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- Ladin
-
noun,
a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.
- adobe
-
noun,
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
- lenis
-
noun,
a lenis consonant.
- blend
-
noun,
an act or manner of blending:
- liras
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- labor
-
noun,
productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- bason
-
noun,
a basin.
- lidos
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- adorn
-
verb (used with object),
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments:
- bides
-
Idioms,
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
- balon
-
noun,
ballon.
- bleep
-
noun,
a brief, constant beeping sound, usually of a high pitch and generated by an electronic device.
- Basel
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Basel-Stadt, in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine River.
- 30-30
-
- Ladon
-
noun,
a dragon having 100 heads and guarding the garden of the Hesperides: killed by Hercules.
- diel
-
adjective,
of or relating to a 24-hour period, especially a regular daily cycle, as of the physiology or behavior of an organism.
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- redo
-
noun,
the act or an instance of redoing.
- per.
-
- rel.
-
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- DIAS
-
noun,
Bartholomeu [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] /ˌbɑr tʊ lʊˈmɛ ʊ/ (Show IPA), c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.
- dels
-
noun,
a differential operator. Symbol: ∇.
- Bend
-
noun,
the act of bending.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- Deni
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the 100th part of a denar.
- dibs
-
noun,
money in small amounts.
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- bane
-
noun,
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Reid
-
noun,
Sir George Huston, 1845–1918, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1904–05.
- Dem.
-
- dere
-
adjective,
dear2 .
- Beni
-
noun,
a river flowing NE from W Bolivia to the Madeira River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- Lodi
-
noun,
a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
- BEMA
-
noun,
Eastern Church. the enclosed space surrounding the altar; the sanctuary or chancel.
- Bene
-
adverb,
of validity for the time being but subject to objection or nullification at a later date; provisionally:
- bels
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- PERL
-
- Reed
-
noun,
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
- pend
-
verb (used without object),
to remain undecided or unsettled.
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- Dene
-
noun,
a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.
- Pen.
-
- reds
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- dern
-
adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
darn2 .
- Den.
-
- DERP
-
noun,
a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward.
- Samp
-
noun,
coarsely ground corn.
- dep.
-
- dia-
-
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- beld
-
adjective,
bald; hairless.
- Perm
-
noun,
permanent (def 4).
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- der.
-
- Bela
-
noun,
a male given name.
- 1080
-
- deme
-
noun,
one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Rom.
-
- peds
-
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- rial
-
noun,
a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
- bani
-
noun,
plural of ban4 .
- pam.
-
- doms
-
noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) a title of a monk in the Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, and certain other monastic orders.
- Base
-
noun,
the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests:
- pams
-
noun,
the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.
- Pan.
-
- dome
-
noun,
Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- dols
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
- pane
-
noun,
one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
- Dole
-
noun,
a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
- Dona
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
- dol.
-
- BDes
-
- ARIS
-
- does
-
noun,
a plural of doe.
- par.
-
- doer
-
noun,
a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- bdl.
-
plural,
bundle.
- pard
-
noun,
a leopard or panther.
- Sard
-
noun,
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
- Rind
-
noun,
a thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of certain fruits, cheeses, and meats:
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- Barn
-
noun,
a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
- Pare
-
noun,
Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- dorm
-
noun,
dormitory.
- Pail
-
noun,
bucket.
- Pain
-
noun,
physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- DORE
-
noun,
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- pair
-
noun,
two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together:
- Dora
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”.
- Pal.
-
- Bare
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- rids
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of ride.
- done
-
noun,
Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- Bari
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Italy, on the Adriatic.
- ride
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- dope
-
noun,
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- Pali
-
noun,
(in Hawaii) a steep slope or cliff.
- dopa
-
noun,
an amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , formed from tyrosine in the liver during melanin and epinephrine biosynthesis: the L-dopa isomer is converted in the brain to dopamine.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- Rida
-
- dons
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- bar.
-
- Palm
-
noun,
the part of the inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- barm
-
noun,
yeast formed on malt liquors while fermenting.
- bdle
-
plural,
bundle.
- dobe
-
noun,
Informal. adobe.
- bees
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- Dine
-
noun,
Scot. dinner.
- pear
-
noun,
the edible fruit, typically rounded but elongated and growing smaller toward the stem, of a tree, Pyrus communis, of the rose family.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Bear
-
noun,
any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- diol
-
noun,
glycol (def 2).
- dins
-
noun,
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- Dino
-
- Peba
-
noun,
nine-banded armadillo.
- ped.
-
- rend
-
verb (used with object),
to separate into parts with force or violence:
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- pede
-
- Sand
-
noun,
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- Bede
-
noun,
Saint ("the Venerable Bede") a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Din.
-
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- DIMS
-
Idioms,
take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:
- been
-
verb,
past participle of be.
- beep
-
noun,
a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn, electronic device, or the like as a signal, summons, or warning.
- dime
-
noun,
a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- dim.
-
- Dies
-
noun,
Martin, 1901–72, U.S. politician.
- Beer
-
noun,
an alcoholic beverage made by brewing and fermentation from cereals, usually malted barley, and flavored with hops and the like for a slightly bitter taste.
- Dior
-
noun,
Christian [kris-chuh n;; French krees-tyahn] /ˈkrɪs tʃən;; French krisˈtyɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1905–57, French fashion designer.
- pean
-
noun,
paean.
- bdls
-
plural,
bundle.
- Beal
-
noun,
a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- bdrm
-
- BDSA
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- repl
-
- Arm.
-
- DMSO
-
- bead
-
noun,
a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- dlr.
-
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- dis-
-
- Rep.
-
- dirl
-
verb (used without object),
to vibrate; shake.
- pars
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a part.
- DIRE
-
adjective,
causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
- dir.
-
- beam
-
noun,
any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- pase
-
noun,
(in bullfighting) a maneuver by a bullfighter with the capa or muleta to gain the attention of the bull and to guide the course of its attack.
- Arno
-
noun,
Peter (Curtis Arnoux Peters) 1904–68, U.S. cartoonist and author.
- Bean
-
noun,
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- Aron
-
noun,
a male given name.
- peal
-
noun,
a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- dips
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- bens
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- Biel
-
noun,
Lake. Bienne, Lake of.
- deli
-
noun,
a delicatessen.
- Bran
-
noun,
the partly ground husk of wheat or other grain, separated from flour meal by sifting.
- brei
-
noun,
a suspension of finely divided tissue in an isotonic medium, used chiefly as a culture for certain viruses.
- prad
-
noun,
Informal. horse.
- blae
-
adjective,
bluish-black; blue-gray.
- Bred
-
noun,
Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
- pram
-
noun,
perambulator.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- prao
-
noun,
proa.
- Brea
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- bade
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- pre-
-
- bldr
-
- robe
-
noun,
a long, loose or flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office.
- RAMP
-
noun,
a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- Bram
-
noun,
a male given name.
- rale
-
noun,
an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- brae
-
noun,
a slope; declivity; hillside.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- Brad
-
noun,
a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end.
- Badr
-
noun,
Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- BPOE
-
- bads
-
noun,
that which is bad:
- RONA
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pos.
-
- Bose
-
noun,
Sir Jagadis Chandre [juh-guh-dees chuhn-druh] /dʒə gəˈdis ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1858–1937, Indian physicist and plant physiologist.
- poms
-
noun,
pommy.
- birl
-
noun,
British Informal. an attempt; a gamble.
- Pola
-
noun,
Pula.
- BSEE
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- BSAE
-
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- Rosa
-
noun,
Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- Brno
-
noun,
a city in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: former capital of Moravia.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- pome
-
noun,
the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- Pond
-
noun,
a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- Bres
-
noun,
a Fomorian king of Ireland, whose unpopular rule led to the expulsion of the Fomorians by the Tuatha De Danann.
- bris
-
noun,
Brith.
- RAND
-
noun,
(in shoemaking) a strip of leather set in a shoe at the heel before the lifts are attached.
- brio
-
noun,
vigor; vivacity.
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- brim
-
noun,
the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink:
- Brie
-
noun,
a region in NE France, between the Seine and the Marne.
- bals
-
noun,
Balmoral (def 2).
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- blad
-
noun,
a flier or other promotional material distributed by a company to sell a product.
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- roms
-
noun,
a Gypsy man or boy.
- Bors
-
noun,
Sir Arthurian Romance.. Also, Sir Bors de Ganis [duh gan-is] /də ˈgæn ɪs/ (Show IPA). a knight of the Round Table, cousin of Lancelot.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- Rome
-
noun,
Harold (Jacob) 1908–1993, U.S. lyricist and composer.
- boil
-
noun,
the act or an instance of boiling.
- BMEd
-
- Boer
-
noun,
a South African of Dutch extraction.
- bods
-
noun,
body:
- Rabi
-
noun,
Isidor Isaac, 1898–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1944.
- Bode
-
verb,
a simple past tense of bide.
- Boas
-
noun,
Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. anthropologist, born in Germany.
- rode
-
noun,
a rope by which a boat is anchored.
- Rodi
-
noun,
Italian name of Rhodes.
- Bale
-
noun,
a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage, or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords, or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering:
- Boar
-
noun,
the uncastrated male swine.
- Bael
-
noun,
a spiny citrus tree, Aegle marmelos, of India.
- rad.
-
- Bald
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name.
- Baer
-
noun,
Karl Ernst von [kahrl urnst von,, fuh n] /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn,, fən/ (Show IPA), 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.
- prs.
-
- Bail
-
noun,
property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- RIBA
-
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- bal.
-
- Bais
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- psia
-
- psid
-
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- robs
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- Bol.
-
- rail
-
noun,
a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- rads
-
noun,
a standard unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to 0.01 gray2 .
- Born
-
noun,
Max, 1882–1970, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- Bore
-
noun,
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- RAID
-
noun,
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
- Bora
-
noun,
(on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.
- bor.
-
- bops
-
noun,
Also called bebop. early modern jazz developed in the early 1940s and characterized by often dissonant triadic and chromatic chords, fast tempos and eccentric rhythms, intricate melodic lines punctuated by pop-tune phrases, and emphasizing the inventiveness of soloists.
Compare cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- BAEd
-
- bons
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- prin
-
- balm
-
noun,
any of various oily, fragrant, resinous substances, often of medicinal value, exuding from certain plants, especially tropical trees of the genus Commiphora.
- blin
-
noun,
singular of blini.
- bola
-
noun,
Also, bolas. a weapon consisting of two or more heavy balls secured to the ends of one or more strong cords, hurled by the Indians and gauchos of southern South America to entangle the legs of cattle and other animals.
- blip
-
noun,
Also called pip. Electronics.
a spot of light on a radar screen indicating the position of a plane, submarine, or other object.
(loosely) any small spot of light on a display screen.
- pro-
-
- proa
-
noun,
any of various types of Indonesian boats, especially a swift Malay sailing boat built with the lee side flat and balanced by a single outrigger.
- Bone
-
noun,
Anatomy, Zoology.
one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate.
the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- Bali
-
noun,
an island in Indonesia, E of Java. 2147 sq. mi. (5561 sq. km). Capital: Singaraja.
- Bond
-
noun,
something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- Bona
-
noun,
Bône, the former name of Annaba.
- romp
-
noun,
a lively or boisterous frolic.
- Boma
-
noun,
a city in the W Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Zaire (Congo) River.
- RADM
-
- bole
-
noun,
the stem or trunk of a tree.
- bold
-
Idioms,
be / make (so) bold, to presume or venture; dare:
- Pol.
-
- BSEM
-
- Pers
-
- bile
-
noun,
Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- Roma
-
noun,
Rome.
- deb.
-
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- reap
-
verb (used with object),
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- DEAR
-
noun,
a person who is good, kind, or generous:
- bier
-
noun,
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
- Dean
-
noun,
Education.
the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college:
an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline:
the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- deal
-
noun,
a business transaction:
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- Pima
-
noun,
a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- DBMS
-
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- dbl.
-
- real
-
noun,
real number.
- PIMS
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- bin-
-
- pina
-
noun,
pineapple.
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- BIND
-
noun,
the act or process of binding; the state or instance of being bound.
- Darn
-
noun,
a darned place, as in a garment:
- Read
-
noun,
an act or instance of reading:
- band
-
noun,
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
- roam
-
noun,
an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
- pil-
-
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- roan
-
noun,
a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- dele
-
noun,
a mark, as or , used to indicate matter to be deleted.
- Del.
-
- berm
-
noun,
Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- rede
-
noun,
counsel; advice.
- deil
-
noun,
devil.
- Bern
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton.
- Saml
-
- dees
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- Deer
-
noun,
any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- rebs
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- RNAS
-
- road
-
noun,
a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- pial
-
adjective,
of or relating to the pia mater.
- pian
-
noun,
yaws.
- deep
-
noun,
the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- Bias
-
noun,
a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned:
- pias
-
noun,
a female given name.
- deem
-
verb (used with object),
to hold as an opinion; think; regard:
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- Sam.
-
- Debs
-
noun,
Eugene Victor, 1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900–20.
- bide
-
Idioms,
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
- Dari
-
noun,
a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- BSEP
-
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- plea
-
noun,
an appeal or entreaty:
- dabs
-
noun,
a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
- raob
-
noun,
Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- Sadi
-
noun,
sadhe.
- Sade
-
noun,
Donatien Alphonse François [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] /dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ alˈfɔ̃s frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Comte de (Marquis de Sade) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
- pleb
-
noun,
a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- BIOS
-
noun,
computer firmware that directs many basic functions of the operating system, as booting and keyboard control.
- Dom.
-
- pled
-
verb,
a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- Sab.
-
- BSPE
-
- BSNA
-
- Dale
-
noun,
a valley, especially a broad valley.
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- BSME
-
- plod
-
noun,
the act or a course of plodding.
- BSLM
-
- BSIR
-
- pnea
-
- poda
-
- BSIE
-
- poem
-
noun,
a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- Bird
-
noun,
any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- DAIS
-
noun,
a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
- Rape
-
noun,
unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- Dare
-
noun,
an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- daps
-
noun,
Carpentry. a notch in a timber for receiving part of another timber.
- ASME
-
- rasp
-
noun,
an act of rasping.
- Danl
-
- Sale
-
noun,
the act of selling.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- Dane
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Denmark.
- Dan.
-
abbreviation,
Bible. Daniel (def 1).
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- bams
-
noun,
a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
- Dali
-
noun,
Salvador [sal-vuh-dawr;; Spanish sahl-vah-th awr] /ˈsæl vəˌdɔr;; Spanish ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, Spanish painter and illustrator.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- bine
-
noun,
a twining plant stem, as of the hop.
- Pisa
-
noun,
a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- damp
-
noun,
moisture; humidity; moist air:
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- sail
-
noun,
an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- bio-
-
- damn
-
noun,
the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis.
- Dame
-
noun,
(initial capital letter)
the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- said
-
noun,
sayyid.
- dals
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- Bion
-
noun,
flourished c100 b.c, Greek pastoral poet.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- BSPA
-
- dorp
-
noun,
a village; hamlet.
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- AIDS
-
noun,
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- aide
-
noun,
nurse's aide.
- Mind
-
noun,
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
- soln
-
- Soma
-
noun,
the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- min.
-
- Iona
-
noun,
an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- mils
-
noun,
a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch (0.0254 mm), used in measuring the diameter of wires.
- MILR
-
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Milo
-
noun,
a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- IRBM
-
- Ire.
-
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- iod-
-
- Mile
-
noun,
Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- Miro
-
noun,
Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- AIME
-
- inae
-
- IndE
-
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- mis-
-
- ins.
-
- Mino
-
noun,
Minho.
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- ails
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- MIPS
-
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- some
-
adverb,
(used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about:
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- imps
-
noun,
a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sora
-
noun,
a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- Sorb
-
noun,
a European tree, Sorbus domestica.
- iso-
-
- sord
-
noun,
a flight or flock of mallards.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Lab.
-
- mes-
-
- lade
-
verb (used with object),
to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MEPA
-
- spae
-
verb (used with object),
to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- lads
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- Spam
-
noun,
(lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively):
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- mild
-
noun,
British. beer that has a blander taste than bitter.
- mibs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- mil.
-
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- mids
-
noun,
Archaic. the middle.
- midn
-
- Mid.
-
- aer-
-
- ISBN
-
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Miao
-
noun,
Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- aeon
-
noun,
(in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- isba
-
noun,
izba.
- sold
-
noun,
an act or method of selling.
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- lain
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- albs
-
noun,
a linen vestment with narrow sleeves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but can be in a color in the Eastern Church.
- IADB
-
- iamb
-
noun,
a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
- mope
-
noun,
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
- Aldm
-
- Mons
-
noun,
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
- Ald.
-
- Iban
-
noun,
Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
- dose
-
noun,
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- ible
-
- ALBM
-
- Albi
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Tarn, in S France: center of the Albigenses.
- Ibos
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- idae
-
- Idas
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- mops
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- Mora
-
noun,
the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- Mon.
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- alme
-
noun,
almah.
- Alis
-
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- slob
-
noun,
a slovenly or boorish person.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- morn
-
noun,
morning.
- Esd.
-
- Ind.
-
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- ales
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- eso-
-
- more
-
noun,
an additional quantity, amount, or number:
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- esp.
-
- Mona
-
noun,
a female given name.
- mols
-
noun,
mole4 .
- Sola
-
noun,
an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- moan
-
noun,
a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- Aire
-
- Mode
-
noun,
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- mod.
-
- Imp.
-
- moas
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- Moab
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
- ile-
-
- soda
-
noun,
sodium hydroxide.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- MNAS
-
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- AInd
-
- Sol.
-
- SOAR
-
noun,
an act or instance of soaring.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- snib
-
noun,
a bolt, catch, lock, or fastening on a door or window.
- mold
-
noun,
a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- Alb.
-
- IDEA
-
noun,
any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- idem
-
noun,
another exactly the same.
- Mole
-
noun,
any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
- ides
-
noun,
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
- idle
-
noun,
the state or quality of being idle.
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- Mods
-
noun,
a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- MOLA
-
noun,
any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- mol.
-
- idol
-
noun,
an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
- snob
-
noun,
a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- moil
-
noun,
hard work or drudgery.
- snod
-
adjective,
smooth; sleek.
- SOAP
-
noun,
a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- laid
-
noun,
the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies:
- lair
-
noun,
a den or resting place of a wild animal:
- mRNA
-
- Lina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- lin.
-
- Mael
-
noun,
a son of Ronan, unjustly killed by him.
- MAEd
-
- ABLS
-
- mads
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- Lind
-
noun,
Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- limp
-
noun,
a lame movement or gait:
- Line
-
noun,
a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface:
- lino
-
noun,
linoleum.
- Lins
-
noun,
a city in E Brazil.
- made
-
noun,
the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- Lion
-
noun,
a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- able
-
noun,
(usually initial capital letter) a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- maid
-
noun,
a female servant.
- mail
-
noun,
letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system:
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- Mali
-
noun,
Republic of, a republic in W Africa: formerly a territory of France; gained independence 1960. 463,500 sq. mi. (120,000 sq. km). Capital: Bamako.
- lien
-
noun,
Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.
- Man.
-
- MALS
-
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- Lima
-
noun,
a word used in communications to represent the letter L.
- MALD
-
- limo
-
noun,
a limousine.
- mal-
-
- limb
-
noun,
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing:
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- lime
-
noun,
Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- limn
-
verb (used with object),
to represent in drawing or painting.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- abl.
-
- SPIM
-
noun,
a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- lobi
-
noun,
plural of lobus.
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- SRAM
-
- lobe
-
noun,
a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
- lone
-
adjective,
being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
- lond
-
- Lome
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea.
- lobs
-
- loam
-
noun,
a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- Loma
-
noun,
a hill or ridge having a broad top.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lode
-
noun,
a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loin
-
noun,
Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- Loeb
-
noun,
Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, German physiologist and experimental biologist in the U.S.
- SRBM
-
- loan
-
noun,
the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Abie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- lipa
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Croatia.
- ABEL
-
noun,
the second son of Adam and Eve, slain by his brother, Cain. Gen. 4.
- abed
-
adverb,
in bed:
- med.
-
- LRBM
-
- lip-
-
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Lorn
-
noun,
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- load
-
noun,
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
- Lira
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- LISA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- Lord
-
noun,
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- Sra.
-
- lied
-
noun,
a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership:
- Lido
-
noun,
a fashionable beach resort.
- LAIS
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- SpEd
-
noun,
rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity:
- Adm.
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- lase
-
verb (used without object),
to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- meed
-
noun,
a reward or recompense.
- Adie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- Lars
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lea.
-
- Lead
-
noun,
the first or foremost place; position in advance of others:
- Lean
-
noun,
the act or state of leaning; inclination:
- Mede
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Media.
- LEAP
-
noun,
a spring, jump, or bound; a light, springing movement.
- Lear
-
noun,
learning; instruction; lesson.
- Mela
-
noun,
a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- Lari
-
noun,
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Maldives, the 100th part of a rupee.
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- mels
-
noun,
honey.
- Lam.
-
- Lamb
-
noun,
a young sheep.
- lame
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- Mend
-
noun,
the act of mending; repair or improvement.
- Lamp
-
noun,
any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas.
Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
- men-
-
- lams
-
noun,
a hasty escape; flight.
- MELD
-
noun,
the act of melding.
- Land
-
noun,
any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
- Lane
-
noun,
a narrow way or passage between hedges, fences, walls, or houses.
- Lani
-
- Laon
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.
- Laos
-
noun,
a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- SPAR
-
noun,
Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
- lard
-
noun,
the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
- meas
-
- LEAS
-
noun,
a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mar.
-
- Marl
-
noun,
Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- Leon
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leo.
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- abos
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- Liao
-
noun,
a river in NE China, flowing from Inner Mongolia to the Gulf of Liaodong. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- Leno
-
noun,
Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- liar
-
noun,
a person who tells lies.
- Lias
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Lib.
-
- Mano
-
noun,
the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- libs
-
noun,
liberation (def 2):
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- lens
-
noun,
a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lend
-
Idioms,
lend a hand, to give help; aid:
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- MDAP
-
- meal
-
noun,
the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper.
- Leda
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the mother, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra and, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Pollux and Helen.
- leds
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- Mead
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
- mdse
-
- MDES
-
- MBPS
-
- Lena
-
noun,
a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- abs-
-
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- abri
-
noun,
a shelter, especially a dugout.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- abr.
-
- SLIM
-
noun,
a garment size meant for a thin person.
- alee
-
adverb, adjective,
upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (opposed to aweather).
- alms
-
noun,
money, food, or other donations given to the poor or needy; anything given as charity:
- obis
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- Amos
-
noun,
a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- amp.
-
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- AMPS
-
noun,
ampere.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Elbe
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the W Czech Republic NW through Germany to the North Sea. 725 miles (1165 km) long.
- Elba
-
noun,
an Italian island in the Mediterranean, between Corsica and Italy: the scene of Napoleon's first exile 1814–15. 94 sq. mi. (243 sq. km).
- Ande
-
plural noun,
a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).
- ELAS
-
- elan
-
noun,
dash; impetuous ardor:
- Elam
-
noun,
an ancient kingdom E of Babylonia and N of the Persian Gulf. Capital: Susa.
- Serb
-
noun, adjective,
Serbian.
- Obie
-
noun,
one of a group of awards given annually, beginning in 1956, by New York City's The Village Voice newspaper for achievement in the off-Broadway theater.
- ands
-
- Amon
-
noun,
Amen.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Olds
-
noun,
Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.
- Edna
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- send
-
noun,
the heaving motion of a vessel.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- Edom
-
noun,
Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- Anil
-
noun,
a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of small, reddish-yellow flowers and yielding indigo.
- obs.
-
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- sepn
-
- Odin
-
noun,
the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
- Oder
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Amor
-
noun,
Cupid.
- AMLS
-
- Edie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Edith.
- Elsa
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- Noma
-
noun,
a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nom.
-
- elms
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- noil
-
noun,
a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- Noel
-
noun,
the Christmas season; yuletide.
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- node
-
noun,
a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- nobs
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- NLRB
-
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- Nome
-
noun,
one of the provinces of ancient Egypt.
- NRPB
-
- elds
-
noun,
age.
- NRAB
-
- sial
-
noun,
the assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and alumina, that comprise the continental portions of the upper layer of the earth's crust.
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nos-
-
- Norm
-
noun,
a standard, model, or pattern.
- side
-
noun,
one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Nord
-
noun,
a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- Nora
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Honora.
- Nor.
-
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- Elia
-
noun,
the pen name of Charles Lamb.
- ole-
-
- EDES
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- NIRA
-
- Orem
-
noun,
a city in N Utah.
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- orad
-
adverb,
toward the mouth or the oral region.
- oral
-
noun,
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Seed
-
noun,
the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- Oran
-
noun,
a seaport in NW Algeria.
- oras
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- orbs
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- ord.
-
- APSE
-
noun,
Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
- arbs
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- drip
-
noun,
an act of dripping.
- Drin
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- drib
-
noun,
a small or minute quantity; bit.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- aril
-
noun,
a usually fleshy appendage or covering of certain seeds, as of the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, or the nutmeg.
- SBLI
-
- arid
-
adjective,
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- seal
-
noun,
an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- OSRD
-
- drab
-
noun,
dull gray; dull brownish or yellowish gray.
- dree
-
adjective,
tedious; dreary.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- osar
-
noun,
plural of os3 .
- DRAM
-
noun,
Measurements.
a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).
1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- Eads
-
noun,
James Buchanan, 1820–87, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- Eden
-
noun,
the place where Adam and Eve lived before the Fall. Gen. 2:8–24.
- ANSI
-
- Sem.
-
- Omri
-
noun,
a king of Israel and the father of Ahab. I Kings 16:16–28.
- Ebro
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N Spain to the Mediterranean. About 470 miles (755 km) long.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- Omer
-
noun,
a Hebrew unit of dry measure, the tenth part of an ephah.
- omen
-
noun,
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
- Omar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Bard
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
- Edam
-
noun,
a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- Oman
-
noun,
Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- Olin
-
noun,
a male given name.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- ano-
-
- Onas
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ebon
-
adjective,
ebony (def 6).
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Earp
-
noun,
Wyatt (Ber·ry Stapp) [wahy-uh t-ber-ee-stap] /ˈwaɪ ətˈbɛr i stæp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.
- opia
-
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Earl
-
noun,
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
- OPer
-
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- ears
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- apes
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- Apr.
-
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- apo-
-
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Opal
-
noun,
a mineral, an amorphous form of silica, SiO 2 with some water of hydration, found in many varieties and colors, including a form that is milky white.
- Apis
-
noun,
a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Elea
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.
- Alps
-
noun,
a high mountain.
- need
-
noun,
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
- MSPE
-
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- MSEE
-
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- NEbE
-
- Nebo
-
noun,
Mt. See under Pisgah.
- NEBS
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- ambo
-
noun,
(in an early Christian church) a raised desk, or either of two such desks, from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted.
- Ens.
-
- neap
-
noun,
neap tide.
- NADP
-
- Neel
-
noun,
Louis Eugène Félix [lwee œ-zhen fey-leeks] /lwi œˈʒɛn feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1904–2000, French physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
- neem
-
- MSBA
-
- nape
-
noun,
the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- sld.
-
- Neil
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”.
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- nail
-
noun,
a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- SLED
-
noun,
a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- enol
-
noun,
an organic compound containing a hydroxyl group attached to a doubly linked carbon atom, as in >C=C(OH)−.
- Also
-
adverb,
in addition; too; besides; as well:
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- nard
-
noun,
an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- epi-
-
- NASD
-
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- Naos
-
noun,
a temple.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- MSIE
-
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- NDSL
-
- Sind
-
noun,
a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- Neal
-
noun,
a male given name.
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Nemo
-
noun,
remote (def 10).
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- MSAE
-
- Nile
-
noun,
a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- nibs
-
noun,
his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical:
- neo-
-
- depr
-
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- nide
-
noun,
a nest or brood, especially of pheasants.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- nabs
-
verb (used with object),
to arrest or capture.
- sild
-
noun,
(in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- nabe
-
noun,
a neighborhood movie theater.
- Emp.
-
- Emil
-
noun,
a male given name: from Latin Aemilius, a family name.
- Nils
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- emia
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- slab
-
noun,
a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- SLAM
-
noun,
a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- nipa
-
noun,
a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- Nida
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Nydia.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- nerd
-
noun,
a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- enl.
-
- Enid
-
noun,
a city in N Oklahoma.
- simp
-
noun,
a fool; simpleton.
- SLBM
-
- aloe
-
noun,
any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- slap
-
noun,
a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- ends
-
noun,
the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- end-
-
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- SED
-
- ard
-
- Sp.
-
- arb
-
noun,
an arbitrager.
- SRO
-
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- SMB
-
- BDS
-
plural,
board.
- APS
-
- Br.
-
- SMD
-
- ASR
-
- SMA
-
- SLP
-
- SLR
-
- ale
-
noun,
a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
- bd.
-
plural,
board.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- Abe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Abraham.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- BAO
-
noun,
an African board game usually played by moving pebbles along two rows of holes.
- Bap
-
noun,
a soft, flattish bread roll.
- RPO
-
- ARE
-
noun,
a measure of surface area; 1 are is equal to1/100 (0.01) of a hectare (100 square meters or 119.6 square yards). Abbreviation: a.
- ALM
-
- RPM
-
- be-
-
- SRB
-
- Sr.
-
- se-
-
- SDR
-
- SDI
-
- SDA
-
- BED
-
noun,
a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- SBE
-
- SBA
-
- sb.
-
- bl.
-
- Rs.
-
- abd
-
- ab-
-
- Ar.
-
- an.
-
- ALP
-
noun,
a high mountain.
- al.
-
- bp.
-
- AID
-
noun,
help or support; assistance.
- ad-
-
- ap-
-
- BOD
-
noun,
body:
- So.
-
- SLE
-
- sd.
-
- Am.
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- RSE
-
- SAR
-
- RSA
-
- SPR
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- ARS
-
- ASI
-
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- BAM
-
noun,
a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
- AMS
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- ROB
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Robert.
- asb
-
- ASM
-
- ARP
-
noun,
Bill, pen name of Smith, Charles Henry.
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- sod
-
noun,
a section cut or torn from the surface of grassland, containing the matted roots of grass.
- ase
-
- Sib
-
noun,
a kinsman; relative.
- Ban
-
noun,
the act of prohibiting by law; interdiction.
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- Bai
-
noun,
a yellow mist occurring in eastern China and Japan during the spring and fall, caused by dust from the interior of China.
- Rod
-
noun,
a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- ae.
-
- ail
-
verb (used with object),
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- ADS
-
noun,
advertisement.
- SPA
-
noun,
a mineral spring, or a locality in which such springs exist.
- SID
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Sidney or Sydney.
- AME
-
- ado
-
noun,
busy activity; bustle; fuss.
- BEM
-
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- bad
-
noun,
that which is bad:
- APE
-
noun,
any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- RLD
-
- abn
-
- aor
-
- ABM
-
- SLA
-
- SAE
-
- ROP
-
- ALS
-
noun,
Indian mulberry.
- API
-
abbreviation,
Also, A.P.I. American Petroleum Institute.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- Apl
-
- ASP
-
noun,
any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
- SAP
-
noun,
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
- Sad
-
noun,
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Abo
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to an Australian Aborigine.
- Aso
-
noun,
Mount, a volcanic mountain in Japan, in central Kyushu, noted for its vast caldera. 5223 feet (1593 meters).
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- Amb
-
- ade
-
noun,
George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- Sal
-
noun,
salt1 .
- ADB
-
- SOB
-
noun,
the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
- ROA
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- rnd
-
- RNA
-
- ASN
-
- Abp
-
- APB
-
- NAD
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- EPS
-
- MSD
-
- MSE
-
- MSI
-
- MSN
-
- NAB
-
verb (used with object),
to arrest or capture.
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- Nap
-
noun,
a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
- EPA
-
- MRP
-
- Ep.
-
- NBA
-
- NbE
-
- NBS
-
- NDE
-
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- NEB
-
noun,
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- EOE
-
- MSA
-
- MRI
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Ibo
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
- IBN
-
- ib.
-
- IAS
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- MOP
-
noun,
a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors, dishes, etc.
- ial
-
- MOR
-
- Ia.
-
- io-
-
- id.
-
- MRE
-
- ESR
-
- ESL
-
- ese
-
- ESA
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERP
-
- MOS
-
noun,
moment (def 1).
- MPA
-
- MPE
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- MRA
-
- NED
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Edward.
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- IDB
-
- obl
-
- OSA
-
- OSB
-
- OSD
-
- OAP
-
- oar
-
noun,
a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- OAS
-
- Oba
-
noun,
a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- RID
-
noun,
a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
- EIS
-
- obi
-
noun,
a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- ODA
-
noun,
a room within a harem.
- OED
-
- ode
-
noun,
a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- ODS
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- eir
-
- OEM
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- EEO
-
- oid
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- EDS
-
noun,
education:
- EDP
-
- op.
-
- ob.
-
- ene
-
- NMI
-
- en-
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMR
-
- NES
-
- NIA
-
- nib
-
noun,
the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- Nil
-
noun,
nothing; naught; zero.
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- NMR
-
- NSA
-
- nob
-
noun,
Slang. the head.
- Nod
-
noun,
a short, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command or because of drowsiness.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- ELM
-
noun,
any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches.
Compare American elm, elm family.
- NOP
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- eld
-
noun,
age.
- NPR
-
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- IDA
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters).
Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- ide
-
- OIr
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- Les
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- lep
-
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- Len
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Leonard.
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- mbd
-
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- MBO
-
- LED
-
noun,
light-emitting diode: a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current and is used in electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting, etc.
- MAP
-
noun,
a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation:
- LDP
-
- Ld.
-
- LBS
-
plural,
pound.
- LBO
-
- lb.
-
plural,
pound.
- Las
-
noun,
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- Mel
-
noun,
honey.
- LAR
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- LAP
-
noun,
the front part of the human body from the waist to the knees when in a sitting position.
- LAO
-
noun,
a member of a people of Laos and northern Thailand.
- Lai
-
noun,
(in medieval French literature)
- Lia
-
noun,
Leah (def 1).
- Mao
-
- Meo
-
noun,
Miao (def 1).
- MBE
-
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LON
-
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- lpm
-
- LPN
-
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- LSI
-
- LSM
-
- Md.
-
- lid
-
noun,
a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- Me.
-
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- Mo.
-
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- MSL
-
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- Mab
-
noun,
Queen Mab.
- MAD
-
noun,
an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell:
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- LIM
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- Lae
-
noun,
a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- MEP
-
- Ido
-
noun,
a revised and simplified form of Esperanto, introduced in 1907.
- MNS
-
- ine
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- in.
-
- ml.
-
- MLA
-
- MLD
-
- MLR
-
- MLS
-
- MNA
-
- MNE
-
- MOA
-
noun,
any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- MIP
-
- mob
-
noun,
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
- ILS
-
- ILP
-
- ILO
-
- ILA
-
noun,
a town in SW Nigeria.
- Moe
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- il-
-
- ier
-
- MOI
-
- IDS
-
noun,
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
- IDP
-
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- Lad
-
noun,
a boy or youth.
- MIB
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- LSD
-
- LDS
-
- La.
-
- ISR
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Isl
-
- ise
-
- ISA
-
- mi.
-
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ior
-
- IRS
-
- MIE
-
- IRO
-
- IRL
-
- Ir.
-
- IPS
-
- ipr
-
- IPO
-
- IPM
-
- IPA
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- EDO
-
noun,
a member of an indigenous people of western Africa, in the Benin region of southern Nigeria.
- OBE
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- BSD
-
- pli
-
- BSN
-
- PLO
-
- BSM
-
- PLR
-
- POA
-
- POB
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- BSE
-
- BSA
-
- BSP
-
- BSL
-
- POM
-
noun,
pommy.
- Bro
-
noun,
a brother.
- BRM
-
- POR
-
- PRA
-
- BRE
-
- Bra
-
noun,
brassiere.
- BPS
-
- BPI
-
- BSO
-
- DBE
-
- BPA
-
- PIO
-
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- DEA
-
- de-
-
- DBS
-
- pim
-
plural,
personal information manager.
- DBA
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- DAS
-
noun,
hyrax.
- DAR
-
- DAP
-
noun,
Carpentry. a notch in a timber for receiving part of another timber.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- do.
-
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- pl.
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- Ola
-
- Dam
-
noun,
a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
- Dal
-
noun,
a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
- DAE
-
- DAB
-
noun,
a quick or light blow; a pat, as with the hand or something soft.
- DSO
-
- DSM
-
- DOA
-
- BPE
-
- Bop
-
noun,
Also called bebop. early modern jazz developed in the early 1940s and characterized by often dissonant triadic and chromatic chords, fast tempos and eccentric rhythms, intricate melodic lines punctuated by pop-tune phrases, and emphasizing the inventiveness of soloists.
Compare cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- Dee
-
noun,
a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear:
- BEP
-
- RBI
-
- RDA
-
- RDS
-
- REA
-
- BIE
-
- Reb
-
noun,
a Confederate soldier.
- BID
-
noun,
an act or instance of bidding.
- Bia
-
noun,
the ancient Greek personification of force: daughter of Pallas and Styx and sister of Cratus, Nike, and Zelos.
- bi-
-
- red
-
noun,
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Rap
-
noun,
a quick, smart, or light blow:
- Ben
-
noun,
the inner or back room of a two-room cottage, especially when used as a combined parlor and bedroom.
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- Bel
-
noun,
a unit of power ratio, equal to 10 decibels.
- BEE
-
noun,
any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
- BEA
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- Bde
-
- BDA
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- BAS
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- rib
-
noun,
one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- Bon
-
noun,
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- boa
-
noun,
any of several nonvenomous, chiefly tropical constrictors of the family Boidae, having vestigial hind limbs at the base of the tail.
- BNS
-
- Bn.
-
- PSA
-
- BMS
-
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- BMR
-
- BMI
-
- Rd.
-
- Re.
-
- BLA
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RMA
-
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- RPS
-
- Rab
-
noun,
a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- BME
-
- BLS
-
- BLM
-
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- ble
-
- PID
-
- PLA
-
- PIA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- EbN
-
- OSP
-
- Pa.
-
- pd.
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- pm.
-
- ONI
-
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- ONR
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- DPM
-
- PAD
-
noun,
a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
- DPI
-
- DPA
-
- ONA
-
noun,
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ea.
-
- Dor
-
noun,
Also, dorbeetle [dawr-beet-l] /ˈdɔrˌbit l/ (Show IPA). a common European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.
- DPS
-
- Dr.
-
- Don
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) Mr.; Sir: a Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
- DSR
-
- EOM
-
- ead
-
- eo-
-
- ORB
-
noun,
a sphere or globe:
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- OPM
-
- EAM
-
- ean
-
- DSP
-
- ose
-
- DSA
-
- ear
-
noun,
the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- DRE
-
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPA
-
- ons
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- DOP
-
noun,
a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
- OMS
-
noun,
a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.
- Doi
-
- Ede
-
noun,
a city in SW Nigeria.
- DOE
-
noun,
the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- DLS
-
- DLO
-
- PAS
-
noun,
a step or series of steps in ballet.
- PBS
-
- PDL
-
- pea
-
noun,
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- DIP
-
noun,
the act of dipping.
- DMA
-
- EdM
-
abbreviation,
electronic dance music: a range of genres of electronic music often played in nightclubs and characterized by a strong danceable beat:
- DIL
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Die
-
noun,
Machinery.
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.
a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.
one of the separate pieces of such a device.
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.
- DIB
-
verb (used without object),
to fish by letting the bait bob lightly on the water.
- di.
-
- Old
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- DEI
-
adverb,
by the grace of God.
- Om.
-
- EdB
-
- Ora
-
noun,
plural of os2 .
- DNR
-
- DNA
-
- DML
-
- EDA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- OMB
-
- DNB
-
- DMS
-
- EBS
-
- ed.
-
- DOB
-
- oma
-
plural,
a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base:
- M.
-
- MA
-
noun,
mother1 .
- OD
-
noun,
a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
- AO
-
- MB
-
- O.
-
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- LR
-
- OA
-
- MP
-
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
- ln
-
- 2D
-
noun,
a two-dimensional form or appearance:
- LM
-
- 3D
-
noun,
a three-dimensional form or appearance:
- A.
-
noun,
Agnolo (di Cosimo di Mariano) [ah-nyaw-law dee kaw-zee-maw dee mah-ryah-naw] /ˈɑ nyɔ lɔ di ˈkɔ zi mɔ di mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1502–72, Italian painter.
- Eb
-
- RO
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- DP
-
- SA
-
- SL
-
- SM
-
- MN
-
- D.
-
- DA
-
noun,
a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
- DN
-
- BA
-
noun,
an aspect of the soul, represented as a human-headed bird.
- B-
-
- dl
-
- RP
-
- NP
-
- NI
-
- ND
-
- NB
-
- NA
-
adverb,
no1 .
- N.
-
- DM
-
- SN
-
- DB
-
- i.
-
- S.
-
- IP
-
- RN
-
- NM
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- le
-
- RI
-
- EI
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- R.
-
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- L2
-
- BM
-
- L1
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- NL
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- LP
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plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
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- P.
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noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- PB
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- PE
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noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- PI
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noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PO
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noun,
a chamber pot.
- BO
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- ol
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